EU delays Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ vote to December at the earliest

The EU has delayed its vote on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system to December at the earliest, as the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) will not meet again until then. The committee’s draft agenda shows that the Dutch request to extend FSD approval EU-wide will be discussed for 25 minutes, with no vote listed. Tesla had initially planned for a vote on October 6, but the earliest possible date is now December. The Dutch regulator RDW has used Article 39 of the EU type-approval regulation to approve FSD Supervised in the Netherlands, and it is now seeking the EU to make that national authorization broader.

• Tesla Europe posted on X that FSD was approved in five EU countries, used by over 70,000 customers, and that an EU-wide vote could happen on October 6. It won’t.
• The Dutch request for an EU-wide FSD approval requires a qualified majority of 15 of the EU’s 27 member states, representing at least 65% of the bloc’s population. Currently, seven countries have recognized the Dutch approval nationally, accounting for about 53 million people, or 12% of the EU population.
• The opposition from Sweden, France, and several other countries remains unaddressed, with concerns about driver attention, speed limits, and icy roads. Without at least some of these four countries, the 65% threshold is out of reach.

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