Tesla seeks approval for full self-driving in Taiwan - Taipei Times

Staff writer, with CNA

Tesla Motors Taiwan Ltd (台灣特斯拉) said yesterday that it has submitted an application for its supervised full self-driving (FSD) system to the Vehicle Safety Certification Center, taking a first step toward making the feature available in Taiwan.The system requires drivers to remain attentive and ready to take immediate control at all times, and does not make a vehicle fully autonomous, the company said.It has been trained using anonymous driving data collected from 8.5 million Tesla vehicles worldwide, it said.

A Tesla in-car touchscreen display is pictured in an undated photograph.

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Each newly delivered vehicle can access a “lifetime” of driving scenarios through the system, it added.Tesla said FSD (Supervised) is available or approved in 13 countries and regions: the US, Canada, China, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Belgium.