Czech Republic approves Tesla's FSD after earlier safety concerns


A display of a Tesla Model 3 using Full Self-Driving Supervised on a highway in San Diego, California, U.S., April 15, 2026. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Sept 21 (Reuters) - ⁠The Czech Republic on Monday ⁠provisionally approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) ‌system, reversing a previously sceptical stance over issues including speed-limit compliance and driver oversight.

• ​The ministry based its ⁠decision on experience ⁠from other countries, additional European data ⁠and ‌safeguards to monitor the system.

• "Clarification of specific issues ⁠relating to the safety and operation ​of ‌the system was crucial to the ⁠Czech ​Republic’s decision," it said in a press release.

• Tesla said in ⁠a post on X that ​the system's rollout in the country would begin soon.

• The decision follows ⁠provisional approval of the system by Dutch regulator RDW in April.

• Several European countries, including Slovenia ​or Estonia, have ⁠approved the use of the system ​earlier this year.

(Reporting by ‌Marie Mannes in ​Stockholm and Vera Dvorakova in Gdansk; Editing by Matt Scuffham)

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