Testing Tesla FSD Supervised. Photo by CleanTechnica.
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Tesla has gotten “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” approved in another European country. Following the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, and Denmark, the driver-assist system is now allowed to be deployed in Belgium. Well, Tesla still has to pass some tests with it, and then it can be rolled out to customers, but that shouldn’t be a problem for the technology. The transport minister of the region of Flanders signed the approval on Wednesday, he announced on X (formerly Twitter).
That’s basically the full news on this matter, but I published an article a couple of days ago about a Wall Street analyst claiming Full Self Driving (FSD) has “effectively achieved Level 4 autonomy (at least in most conditions).” There were many good comments from readers on the topic. However, this long comment from Steve Shaw does a superb job of characterizing the current state of FSD appropriately, so I’m taking the opportunity to share it more broadly here.
“The analyst’s points are a great description of what is colloquially referred to as ‘L2++’: Driver assist that is often able (in good weather) to drive the car, BUT the human driver must remain alert, ready to intervene at any instant, sometimes without warning. Perhaps is close to L3 in limited conditions, such as a divided highway (in good weather).
