Overview
- The Dutch road authority granted provisional type approval after extensive local testing, and that decision has let eight EU countries accept the system through mutual recognition, creating limited rollout in parts of the bloc.
- Germany’s transport ministry has signaled support for an EU-wide vote and agreed with Tesla to cap a speed‑offset at 10 percent and to rename the feature to reduce misleading claims about autonomy.
- Independent researchers and a Reuters investigation found flaws in Tesla’s safety evidence, noting the company used behavioural proxies instead of peer‑reviewed crash‑rate studies and pushed RDW to narrow the scope of testing.
- The Dutch test dataset that underpinned approval remains sealed as a commercial secret, which prevents outside experts from verifying Tesla’s claim that the system causes far fewer crashes than human drivers.
- The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles has not yet voted and a decisive EU decision is likely delayed until December 2026, leaving Tesla to pursue a two‑track strategy of national approvals and renewed lobbying for bloc‑wide recognition.