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[郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo @mingchikuo]

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[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@ISAQUES81 Thanks!

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@Abhinov_v Oh well, thanks though!

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@Frankforphones Interesting, thanks!

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@Gm_t18 That definitely makes sense

I was just wondering whether or not one could trigger this on their own

After all the 3x OV52A has the optics (at least on paper) to compete with the HP0 / HPE - which I thought might be a viable, or even slightly better, solution in very low light

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@mweinbach ColorOS 16.1 Update?

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@_VanCajun ¿Podrías hablar un poco sobre cómo se sienten las diferentes superficies y materiales en la mano?

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken

FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly! 

Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways

No other vehicle can do this. 

We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation. 

Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer.

Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to:

– 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads
– 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs
– 4,500+ track test scenario executions
– Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements
– Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results

We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point.

We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

Unfortunate, but not surprised. The smartphone market is hard, and it's extra hard in the regions that OnePlus plays.

Hope it's not true, but would not be surprised if it is. https://t.co/CP8wQ1M7Eh

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: NVIDIA just announced Alpamayo, what CEO Jensen Huang calls the world’s first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI, launching on U.S. roads later this year, starting with the Mercedes CLA.

Jensen: "It's trained end-to-end. Literally from camera in to actuation out; It reasons what action it is about to take, the reason by which is came about that action, and the trajectory."

Alpamayo introduces Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which enable self-driving systems to interpret what they see, reason about complex driving scenarios, and generate driving actions. The platform includes large reasoning models, simulation tools for testing rare and edge-case scenarios, and open datasets for training and validation.

NVIDIA says the approach improves transparency, safety, and robustness in autonomous systems, particularly in complex real-world environments, and supports progress toward higher levels of vehicle autonomy:

"With a 10-billion-parameter architecture, Alpamayo 1 uses video input to generate trajectories alongside reasoning traces, showing the logic behind each decision. Developers can adapt Alpamayo 1 into smaller runtime models for vehicle development, or use it as a foundation for AV development tools such as reasoning-based evaluators and auto-labeling systems. Alpamayo 1 provides open model weights and open-source inferencing scripts. Future models in the family will feature larger parameter counts, more detailed reasoning capabilities, more input and output flexibility, and options for commercial usage."

[LΞØN @LeonTwts]

@mweinbach Agreed! It's great for a first iteration of snow mode or weather-based driving behavior!

It'll need some tweaks, of course, but it performs 10 times better than before, when it could sometimes be almost unusable depending on conditions.

https://t.co/X8ulJx2YY1

[The Cybertruck Guy @cybrtrkguy]

I've uncovered a bit more about FSD V14's behavior in the snow.

FSD has an invisible & binary "Snow Mode" where it shifts in and out of a different profile upon detection of snow-covered roads.

Snow Mode is either ON or OFF. It does not appear to be a gradient based on condition severity.

Example: In the video below, you can see tiny bits of snow drifting across the highway surface. Before this snow appeared, FSD drove normally (at the speed limit or above).

When it saw this snow, it instantly slowed to 10-15mph under the speed limit. Then, when the snow cleared, it sped back up.

It did this multiple times over a 10 mile drive:
>Drive Normally
>Detect Snow
>Enter Snow Mode
>Slow Down
>Snow is gone
>Exit Snow Mode
>Drive Normally

In this particular instance driving between various conditions, Snow Mode was unnecessary for this type of snow drifting. Pressing the accelerator or increasing the speed profile does NOT override Snow Mode.

Elon said last year they may need to create different versions of FSD for different regions, driving types, and weather (Deep snow vs. Manhattan, etc).

This may be our first look at that separated version of FSD that is activated under a certain condition!

[Genma_Jp @nymbusjp]

https://t.co/eDxL0vVJ1B

[Kees Roelandschap @KRoelandschap]

Our voices have been heard!

Thanks to the Dutch @RDWnl The Netherlands will be the first country in Europe to receive FSD (Supervised) as soon as February 2026

Fingers crossed that the TCMV vote makes it so FSD can go Europe wide ASAP

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Tesla has been working hard toward shipping Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe for over 12 months now. We have given FSD demos to regulators of almost every EU country. We have requested early access, pilot release programs or exemptions where possible.

We have developed & shared detailed safety evidence for FSD, now public in our latest Safety Report. And we have driven over 1 million kilometers safely on EU roads across 17 different countries (internal testing). 

Our main path to success is partnering with the Dutch approval authority RDW to gain exemption for the feature. This involves proving compliance with existing regulations (UN-R-171 DCAS) + filing an exemption (EU Article 39) for yet-to-be-regulated behaviors like Level 2 systems off-highway, system-initiated lane changes with hands-off the wheel etc. 

Some of these regulations are outdated and rules-based, which makes FSD illegal in its current form. Changing FSD to be compliant with these rules would make it unsafe and unusable in many cases. While we have changed FSD to be maximally compliant where it is logical and reasonable, we won't sacrifice the safety of a proven system or materially deteriorate customer usability. 

As a result, we are gathering evidence to get exemptions on a specific rule-by-rule basis. Unfortunately, the real world fleet-proven safety wins alone are considered insufficient. 

Currently, RDW has committed to granting Netherlands National approval in February 2026. Please contact them via link below to express your excitement & thank them for making this happen as soon as possible. Upon NL National approval, other EU countries can immediately recognize the exemption and also allow rollout within their country. Then we will bring it to a TCMV vote for official EU-wide approval. 

We're excited to bring FSD to our owners in Europe soon!

https://t.co/FhoK0xX81r

[ilker @ailker]

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