By its own admission, Tesla’s growth plans for Europe hinge on the European Union’s approval of its Full-Self Driving (Supervised) advanced driver assistance system.
Tesla sales in the continent have rebounded from the pronounced decline they experienced last year, according to eCarsTrade, but the electric vehicle maker said its sales would be even better if FSD was available across the EU.
Honesty is the best policy, and Tesla is using transparency as the latest tool to convince regulators at the European Commission to approve FSD on its roads and highways.
Tesla posted an open-source safety dashboard online this week, featuring the same safety information it previously shared with regulators.
“We have decided to open-source one of the key pieces of evidence used to support the Netherlands approval,” Tesla said.
What does Tesla’s open-source data show?
Tesla’s dashboard is a portfolio of data suggesting that EU regulators should approve FSD, including studies on everything from mileage distribution across all road classes to comparisons of manually driven Tesla vehicles with active safety features versus FSD-driven safety metrics.
Tesla FSD has been approved in five European countries so far: the Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, and Lithuania.
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FSD has recorded 4.1 times fewer collisions than manually driven Telsa cars, according to the company, based on more than 100 million km (62 million miles) of driving data accumulated between April and August.
FSD-equipped vehicles were involved in three collisions on highways and nine on non-highway roads. At the same time, manually driven Teslas were involved in 137 highway collisions and 490 non-highway ones.
For FSD to be approved, committee members representing 55% of member states and 65% of their populations must vote in favor of the measure.
The European Commission’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles is expected to vote on EU-wide approval of FSD Supervised on Oct. 6.
FSD has recorded 4.1 times fewer collisions than manually driven Telsa cars, according to the company.
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Tesla FSD European Union approval faces opposition from Sweden
The decline in sales from Sweden was a big factor in Tesla’s overall decline in Europe last year.
Tesla’s sales in the Nordic country dropped 70% in 2025, according to Investing.com, with its ongoing labor dispute, as described by the IndustriAll European Trade Union, undoubtedly playing a part.
But now, at least one of Sweden’s transportation regulatory bodies is recommending that the nation become one of the highest-profile opposers to Tesla’s FSD dreams in Europe.
The Swedish Transport Administration (TRV) sent a letter recommending that Tesla FSD (Supervised) not be approved for the European Union unless the system’s ability to ignore speed limits is removed, Reuters reported, citing a previously unreported letter obtained through a freedom of information request.
The TRV sent the letter, dated April 30, to the EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, which is scheduled to reconvene on June 30 to discuss Tesla’s approval ahead of an official vote at a later date.
Tesla FSD provides users with a “Speed Offset” setting that lets them exceed posted speed limits by a margin of their choosing. But “allowing automated systems to systematically exceed legal speed limits… risks undermining both the legal framework and the expected safety benefits of vehicle automation,” according to the letter.
“Failing this (limiting ‘speed offset’), the Swedish Transport Administration recommends that TCMV vote against the proposed introduction,” the letter said, according to Reuters.
The TRV is only one of Sweden’s transportation agencies. The Swedish Transport Agency (STA), Sweden’s other transportation regulator, reportedly also raised concerns with Tesla and Dutch regulator RDW during a two-hour meeting on June 4, according to Reuters.
But the RDW approved FSD in April and is backing its approval across Europe.
The STA says it is still “assessing the matter to establish a Swedish position.”
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