EU-wide vote on Tesla's FSD approval slips to December
The EU-wide vote on Tesla's supervised FSD that Musk teased for October 6 didn't happen — the TCMV's October 6 agenda allots just 25 minutes to "continued discussion" rather than a vote, pushing the earliest possible decision to the panel's December meeting. With Sweden and other member states still flagging FSD's speed-limit violations, Europe's FSD/robotaxi revenue timeline slips at least two more months.
Tesla's push for EU-wide approval of supervised FSD works through an "Article 39" authorization: recognizing the approval Dutch regulator RDW already granted, across all 27 member states. Passing requires a "qualified majority" -- 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of the bloc's population.
The agenda for the October 6 meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV, made up of member-state representatives and the European Commission) allots just 25 minutes to "continued discussion" of the Dutch authorization -- no vote is listed. TCMV's next scheduled meeting after that is in December, making it the earliest realistic opportunity for a vote. Tesla itself had flagged the possibility of an October 6 vote in a September 1 post on X.
Sweden and other member states have raised concerns that FSD frequently exceeds speed limits -- echoing a recent Belgian safety-group study finding Tesla's system drove roughly 44 km/h through some 30 km/h zones in Brussels. Countries that have already approved FSD counter that drivers remain responsible for complying with traffic laws, and that disagreement appears to be behind the delay.
Tesla notched its seventh individual country approval (Czechia) on September 21, showing momentum on a country-by-country basis. But the bigger prize -- a single EU-wide approval -- just slipped by at least two more months. Investors tracking Tesla's European FSD/robotaxi revenue timeline should treat December's TCMV meeting as the next checkpoint.
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