Tesla opens FSD dashboard, cites 102M km

Tesla has published a public dashboard laying out safety data it says supports wider approval of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system in Europe. The company said on September 1 that the dashboard was one of the key pieces of evidence used in the Netherlands’ provisional approval process and had also been shared with EU member-state regulators in April. Tesla says the data cover more than 100 million kilometers of driving between April and August in five European countries and show the system was involved in 4.1 times fewer collisions than manually driven Teslas. ### What did Tesla actually release? Tesla’s website now hosts an “Article 39 - FSD (Supervised) Dashboard” that compiles collision-rate comparisons, lane-change analysis, distraction and fatigue metrics, engineering-fleet testing and fixed-route testing in six European cities. The dashboard says it is intended to support regulatory approval under Article 39 requirements and presents what Tesla calls “comprehensive safety evidence” for the system. (tesla.com) The release matters because Dutch regulators and other European authorities had previously declined to publish the underlying safety material, citing commercial sensitivity, according to Reuters. Tesla said the public posting was a decision to “open-source” one of the key pieces of evidence used to support the Netherlands approval. (tesla.com) ### What is the 4.1-times-fewer-collisions claim based on? Tesla said the comparison draws on more than 100 million km, or about 62 million miles, of driving data collected from April through August in the five European countries where FSD Supervised is permitted. Reuters reported those countries as the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. (finance.yahoo.com) The same Reuters report said Tesla counted three highway collisions and nine non-highway collisions involving FSD-equipped cars, versus 137 highway collisions and 490 non-highway collisions involving manually driven Teslas over the same period. Tesla presents that as evidence that supervised use of the system was associated with a lower collision rate than manual driving in those markets. (finance.yahoo.com) ### Why is Europe the focus now? The Netherlands became the first European country in April to grant provisional approval for Tesla’s FSD system, Reuters reported, and Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania followed before a broader EU decision. Tesla has said a vote on wider deployment could happen as soon as October 6. (finance.yahoo.com) Approval would require support from at least 15 of the European Union’s 27 member states representing at least 65% of the bloc’s population, Reuters reported. Tesla has argued that broader approval is important for its business in Europe, where the company is seeking to expand the use of the software. ### What questions have been raised about Tesla’s methodology? (finance.yahoo.com) Reuters reported on September 1 that experts who reviewed Tesla’s safety statistics said the company relied on invalid comparisons that could give a misleading impression of the system’s safety performance. Reuters also said Tesla did not respond to detailed questions for that earlier report. (finance.yahoo.com) Tesla’s dashboard itself says it compares safety performance across different control types and road classes and includes both North American and European analyses. But the public material available through the dashboard preview does not, by itself, settle the outside criticism over whether the comparison groups are matched in a way regulators or independent researchers would consider robust. That is an inference based on Reuters’ reporting about the expert criticism and Tesla’s own description of the dashboard’s contents. (finance.yahoo.com) ### What happens next? October 6 is the date Tesla has said an EU-wide vote could occur on broader approval of FSD Supervised. Until then, the public dashboard is likely to remain a central part of Tesla’s case to regulators in the five countries already allowing the system and in the rest of the bloc. (finance.yahoo.com) (tesla.com)