Tesla FSD EU Vote Pushed to December at Earliest — SkimNews
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- Tesla's EU-wide Full Self-Driving vote won't happen October 6 — the TCMV draft agenda lists just a 25-minute "continuation of discussions" on the Dutch Article 39 request.
- The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles doesn't reconvene until December, making that the earliest possible vote date.
- Tesla publicly posted on September 1 that an EU-wide FSD vote could happen October 6 — the latest in a series of slipped dates that began with a missed February 2026 target.
- The Dutch request needs a qualified majority of 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of EU population, but only seven countries (Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Czechia) have recognized the approval, covering roughly 53 million people or about 12% of the bloc.
- France has refused to recognize the Dutch approval over speeding and driver-attention concerns in cities, while Sweden demanded Tesla strip the ability to set FSD above the posted speed limit.
- A Brussels pedestrian safety group found FSD sped in 55% of the 30 km/h segments tested, even in a country where the system is already approved.
- Germany, Italy, and Spain also haven't recognized Dutch approval; those four opposing countries together hold about 58% of EU population — meaning the 65% threshold is mathematically out of reach without some of them.
Why it matters: Tesla's EU FSD rollout is now a numbers problem more than a timing problem: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain together represent about 58% of EU population and have raised concrete speeding and driver-attention objections — without at least some of them, the 65% qualified-majority threshold is mathematically unreachable, turning the December vote into something closer to a scheduled rejection than a real decision.
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