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Europe’s regulators aren’t protecting you from Tesla. They’re protecting themselves from irrelevance. The painfully slow approval of Full Self-Driving in Europe isn’t about safety. It’s about incentives. Regulators’ entire existence depends on the public believing they are the ones who “keep everyone safe.” If they approve FSD quickly, they have to admit something uncomfortable: Tesla has already done the real work. Billions of miles of real-world validation on Cortex. Over 10 billion miles driven in the United States. The system has been stress-tested at a scale no government lab could ever replicate. The data is overwhelming. So what do regulators do? They invent new hoops to jump through. They demand tests that are orders of magnitude less rigorous than what Tesla has already completed. Why? Because if they don’t, they have zero visible “added value.” And zero added value means zero justification for their budgets, their jobs, and their authority. They cannot simply say: “Tesla has already solved this better than we ever could.” That would be career suicide. It would expose that they are, at best, redundant — and at worst, actively slowing down safer roads for millions of Europeans. So they delay. They nitpick. They posture. Not because FSD is dangerous, but because admitting it isn’t would threaten their own livelihood. This isn’t regulation. It’s institutional self-preservation dressed up as public protection. The longer they stall, the clearer it becomes: Europe’s biggest obstacle to safer autonomous driving isn’t the technology. It’s the people whose job it is to approve it.

Germany reported 3,149 Tesla sales and 1.3% market share in April. BEV penetration is 25.8% and Tesla has 4.9% of this segment. 🇩🇪 • +256% vs. April last year and +142% compared to January the first month of the previous quarter • Best April ever • Highest first month of the quarter since 24Q1 (9 quarters) • Last three months +188.0% vs. November - January • Year-to-date +175% over same period last year • Year-to-date is 82% or 9.9/12 of last year's total

Calling it “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” is not misleading. When you activate FSD for the first time, you are required to watch a ~10-minute safety video and complete a short quiz. The system makes it explicit that you, the driver, remain responsible at all times while FSD is engaged. The concerns from regulators about misuse don’t reflect how the system is actually introduced and used in practice. The safeguards are clear, and the expectations for driver attention are communicated upfront. Regulators should focus on understanding how this technology works in real-world conditions before drawing conclusions about its safety.