***From Business Insider's Henry Chandonnet:*** Tesla may have gotten the balloons and streamers out a bit too early. Launching its supervised full self-driving software, or FSD, across international borders has proved challenging for Tesla. While North American drivers have had access to FSD since 2022, the company has only released some features in China, its second-largest market. Tesla owners in the EU appeared to be set to get some good news on that front, according to Tesla — but a Dutch regulator then chimed in to say not so fast. On Saturday, Tesla posted on X that it had been pushing to roll out FSD in Europe for over a year. The "main path to success," it said, was partnering with the Dutch approval authority RDW. "Currently, RDW has committed to granting Netherlands National approval in February 2026," Tesla wrote in its X post. Two days later, RDW shot back its own "response to Tesla's appeal." In the blog post originally written in Dutch, the regulatory agency had drawn up a schedule for Tesla to meet requirements by February 2026, but that the approval wasn't a done deal. Bloomberg was the first to report RDW's response. "RDW and Tesla know what efforts need to be made to make a decision on this in February," the Dutch regulatory agency wrote, according to a Google translation. "Whether the schedule will be met remains to be seen in the coming period." As the chokepoint for European FSD expansion, Tesla employees have been impatient with RDW's extensive testing and slowness. "Keep in mind that this is mission critical for our leadership," a Tesla employee wrote in an email to the RDW last November, viewed by Business Insider. Musk has previously lamented the EU's self-driving regulation, calling it a "layer cake of bureaucracy." Tesla has faced steep competition in the European market, as Chinese competitors like BYD race for market share. European Tesla sales were down an estimated 48.5% year over year in October, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. In Tesla's X post, the company also called on its fans to push the regulatory agency. "Please contact them via link below to express your excitement & thank them for making this happen as soon as possible," Tesla wrote. RDW didn't appear to be a fan of the move, asking readers "not to contact us about this," according to the translation of its response. [Read the full story about Tesla's push for regulatory approval in Europe here.](https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fsd-approval-europe-not-confirmed-2025-11?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-realtesla-sub-comment)
So then they added 100b in market cap. It‘s a win! TSLA doesn’t care about selling anything, silly, it‘s only selling stock.
yeah I tried to post the same thing earlier and got automodded :) I presume because I also put in the link to X ... anyhow... yeah, I hope they do not get approved just because of their dick approach sending fanboys to annoy safety authority.
The Dutch know their tulips. And Tesla stock is a tulip bulb to them.
Lol
So to get approval they have to meet a deadline? That’s easy for Elmo, he hits 100% of his deadlines 0% of the time
smoke mirrors and misinformation
Tesla lied? No way! /s
60% of the time, works every time
>"Keep in mind that this is mission critical for our leadership," Sounds like a you problem.
Where is that link so I can let the RDW know not to approve that ‘technology’? The RDW made that mistake earlier already by approving Tesla crap.
Bro Tesla and Palantir are 100% Ponzi schemes.
Finally someone calling them out on their lies.
I don’t think Tesla sales being down in Europe is anything to do with a lack of FSD. It’s more to do with Elon Musk’s support of far right political groups and the fact he performed multiple nazi salutes on live television!
> TSLA doesn’t care about selling anything, silly, it‘s only selling stock. Of course not, the stock price is how their cult leader gets paid.
They try to use their fk fanboys, like Musk did with SpaceX/Nasa, to put pressure on the ones in charge. How about you make a SYSTEM THAT WORKS and complies with laws? Oh right, you can't, and FSD is forever stuck and the level of a glorified lane assist!
>RDW didn't appear to be a fan of the move, asking readers "not to contact us about this," according to the translation of its response. They should auto reply with a 💩 the tesla simps would love that and in no way start publicly crying like massive babies for everyone to laugh at while calling them hypocrites.
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