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Mandatory standards governing L3/L4 systems, including data recording, OEM responsibility and hardware redundancy requirements.
Germany's transport minister Steffen Bilger said he would actively push for EU-wide approval of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. His backing puts the bloc's most populous state behind a bid that needs 15 of 27 countries holding more than 65% of EU residents.
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Tesla Korea CEO Seo Yeong-deuk pledged under oath to seek FSD certification in a country where only 20.7% of 229,311 registered Teslas can legally run it. The testimony feeds a lawsuit owners have pressed since December 2024 over an option they paid about 9 million won for and say they could never use.
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving software has national approval in eight EU countries holding about 12.6% of the bloc's population. Reaching the other 87.4% needs a bloc-wide committee vote that has not yet been held, so Europe is a smaller FSD market than Tesla's lobbying push implies.
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Pony.ai and Verne have taken the safety driver out of a 22km route in Zagreb and left the bookings inside Uber. The partners want more than 2,000 cars on European roads, and the union-wide small series path allows 1,500 a year.
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Rule libraries scored on pre-mapped routes and asked for a takeover everywhere else. The pivot to one-stage end-to-end buys human-feeling control by deleting the per-module debug surface.
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