Overview
- Tesla released an open-source safety dashboard and said supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) logged more than 100 million kilometres of driving and recorded 4.1 times fewer collisions than manual driving across five European countries.
- Independent experts and reporters flagged specific problems with Tesla’s data and methods, including dashboard windows that appear to end in 2025 and comparisons that may not control for traffic, weather, time of day or differences in sample size.
- Slovenia approved Tesla’s supervised FSD this week, becoming the sixth European country to give provisional national clearance after the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania.
- France has begun on-road tests of Tesla FSD to verify the company’s numbers and several other EU members are still considering their positions ahead of a possible bloc-wide vote.
- Investors reacted negatively to Tesla’s publicity around the data as the company faces near-term profit and cash-flow pressure, and experts note Tesla’s supervised system still requires human oversight unlike fully driverless services run by competitors such as Waymo and Baidu’s Apollo Go.