The EU is pushing back the voting on Tesla FSD to December. Seven countries have already approved it.
The European Union will not vote on October 6, 2026, regarding the approval of Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) across the Community. The 119th meeting of the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles only scheduled 25 minutes of further discussion on the Dutch proposal. The next committee meeting is set for December, and only then could a decision be made.
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Tesla had indicated October 6 as a possible voting date. Elon Musk commented on the further delay with one word: “Sigh,” meaning a sigh.
Instead of voting, there will be 25 minutes of discussion
The TCMV meeting is scheduled in Brussels from 10:00 to 15:00. The Dutch proposal was allocated a time slot from 11:45 to 12:10, just before the lunch break. Tesla was not mentioned in the agenda, nor was any voting scheduled.
The Dutch RDW authorized FSD Supervised on April 10. This is based on UN Regulation No. 171 and the procedure under Article 39 of the EU Regulation 2018/858. It allows for the approval of new technologies that do not yet fall under the standard homologation process.
Netherlands aims to extend its national approval to the entire Union. The TCMV has already discussed this request twice but has not proceeded to a vote. Therefore, December is the earliest possible date, not the promised launch date for the service.
Tesla has changed the timeline several times. It initially expected Dutch approval in February 2026, then shifted the goal to April 10. Musk later mentioned availability across the EU by summer 2026. Summer has passed, and the formalities remain unfinished.
The European Union has delayed a vote on Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) to December at the earliest (from October 6th), according to an agenda published on the EU’s website.
Agenda for the October meeting: pic.twitter.com/DeR6fioYHH
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 25, 2026
Seven countries is still not enough
FSD Supervised is currently approved in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia. These countries together have about 53 million residents, which is roughly 12% of the Union’s population.
A qualified majority is required to adopt a decision. This means support from at least 15 of the 27 countries, representing at least 65% of the EU’s population, or about 292 million people.
Germany, France, Italy, and Spain are the most important. Together, they account for about 58% of the EU’s population. France has rejected the current approval, while the other three countries have not yet recognized the RDW’s decision. Without support from some of these large countries, Tesla will not reach the required 65%.
Poland is also not on the list of seven countries. Drivers who purchased the FSD package with the intention of activating it later still do not have a timeline for full functionality to be available.
Speed and driver attention issues hinder approval
France and regulators from Nordic countries have raised concerns about speed limit violations and driver attention monitoring. Sweden wants the system to prevent setting speeds above the legal limits. Questions have also arisen regarding FSD’s performance on icy roads.
The Brussels organization focused on pedestrian safety tested the system in Belgium. According to its measurements, FSD exceeded the limit by 55% on the tested sections with a speed limit of 30 km/h. Belgium is one of the countries that have approved the software, so it’s difficult to use the test not matching European roads as an argument.
Tesla responds with its own statistics. According to the company’s data, over 70,000 users travel more than 1 million kilometers per day using FSD. Over a distance of 100 million kilometers, the system was involved in collisions 4.1 times less frequently than a car driven without it.
A previous set of data covering 65 million kilometers showed a 5.2 times advantage and no highway collisions over 41.9 million kilometers. However, these are Tesla’s figures without independent auditing. They also don’t show the full methodology for comparing routes, conditions, and driver profiles.
In 2025, approximately 19,400 people died on European roads, an average of 53 per day. Better support systems can reduce this figure, but FSD Supervised still requires constant monitoring, with legal responsibility remaining with the human driver.
Tesla already has a working product and seven national approvals, but it now needs to convince the countries that account for most of the EU’s population. Would you accept FSD in Poland in its current version, with a driver always responsible for driving?
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