Overview
- A Reuters investigation published on Monday found Tesla sent European regulators slide decks and reports that used self-published statistics and headline claims such as more than seven times farther between crashes and 32,000 lives saved.
- Independent traffic‑safety researchers say Tesla’s methods are misleading because the company compared airbag‑triggering crashes in FSD‑active Teslas to a broad U.S. crash rate, benchmarked against an older average U.S. fleet, and assumed universal replacement of all vehicles by FSD‑enabled Teslas.
- The Dutch road authority RDW, which approved FSD (supervised) for the Netherlands in April, says it based its decision on its own tests and audits and is now monitoring roughly 40,000 FSD‑equipped Teslas that have driven 24 million kilometres without any serious incidents.
- Two U.S. senators have asked NHTSA to review Tesla’s underlying crash data and to strengthen reporting rules for advanced driver assistance systems, and the European Transport Safety Council has urged independent peer review of Tesla’s safety claims.
- Full EU authorization still requires a member‑state vote at the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles and further review of safety, naming and driver‑monitoring issues, which could delay any bloc‑wide approval and change how regulators treat manufacturer data going forward.