Overview
- The Swedish Transport Administration sent a letter dated April 30 asking the EU Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles to vote against Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) unless the feature that lets the car exceed posted speed limits, called Speed Offset, is removed.
- Several countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, and Estonia have provisionally authorised FSD for use on public roads based on the Dutch type approval.
- TCMV will discuss the Dutch approval on June 30 and a failed EU adoption would let the Dutch provisional approval lapse after six months and trigger withdrawal of national recognitions.
- Regulators’ concerns extend beyond speeding to winter performance, the effectiveness of driver monitoring, and the transparency and reliability of Tesla’s safety data, prompting calls for independent review.
- A bloc-wide approval would ease Tesla’s wider roll‑out and subscriptions across Europe, while rejection would limit availability for drivers and could force tougher reporting and certification rules for automated driving systems.