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Emails show Tesla pressed Dutch regulator to ease FSD review
According to emails obtained by Reuters, Tesla spent months pressing the Dutch regulator RDW to scale back its review of 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised)', including disputing a €365,000 invoice. RDW approved the system and is now asking the EU to do the same; eight countries already allow it, and a bloc-wide vote could come as early as December. Tesla proposed that its own test reports be enough instead of in-person inspections, and RDW will not publish its test data, citing trade secrets.…
- Tesla called RDW's €365,000 invoice an 'extremely high cost' and held payment.
- Tesla's safety study used surrogate indicators, not crashes, per seven researchers.
🔎 Why it matters: RDW's approval is the foundation of Tesla's FSD push in Europe, and an EU-wide vote on FSD could come as early as December.
📈 Upside: Not applicable.
📉 Risk: RDW will not publish its FSD test data, citing Tesla trade secrets, so the public cannot see the review underpinning the approval.
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