Overview
- A Reuters report published Monday showed Tesla sent its own safety slides to regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that used the same self‑published statistics critics say are misleading.
- Independent traffic‑safety researchers said Tesla compared only crashes that triggered airbag deployment in FSD‑equipped cars to U.S. all‑vehicle crash rates and to an older average U.S. fleet, a mismatch that inflates the apparent safety gain.
- Tesla’s presentation included headline claims such as FSD could have 'saved 32,000 lives' and that Teslas on FSD travel more than seven times farther between crashes, figures researchers say rest on unrealistic assumptions about universal adoption.
- The Dutch road authority RDW says it validated and audited Tesla’s test data before its provisional April approval and several countries have recognised that approval nationally, but Nordic regulators and the European Transport Safety Council have flagged operational issues and urged independent review.
- EU‑wide clearance still requires a qualified majority at the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles with key meetings in July and October and the vote outcome will shape whether FSD expands across Europe and how regulators may restrict or label the system.