Tesla 'FSD' sped in 55% of Brussels 30 km/h zones ahead of EU vote

A Brussels road-safety nonprofit ran a three-day, ~400 km test in July of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) on low-speed city streets and found pervasive speeding: FSD exceeded 30 km/h limits in 55% of 30 km/h segments and averaged 44 km/h where the legal cap is 30. The system also went over the 20 km/h limit in 42% of residential “woonerven,” repeatedly displayed 50 km/h on its instrument cluster inside 30 zones, and attempted to overtake cyclists in “fietsstraten” where passing is prohibited. Testers note FSD often yielded to pedestrians and cyclists, but argue that systematic speeding in areas designed to protect vulnerable road users is dangerous - WHO data cited shows a pedestrian hit at 44 km/h is nearly six times more likely to die than at 30 km/h. The group forwarded its findings to the Dutch regulator (RDW) and the Flemish mobility ministry on September 7 and urged reconsideration ahead of an EU-level decision.

The timing matters because a Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles vote on October 6 could extend the RDW’s provisional approval across all 27 EU states if a qualified majority agrees. The RDW granted provisional approval in April and Flanders formally accepted FSD in June after Tesla logged 5,000 km of supervised testing, but Sweden, France and others have flagged speeding and in-city driver attention as blockers. Tesla points to its own data arguing FSD matches surrounding traffic speeds; critics counter that regulators are effectively approving software that demonstrably breaks low-speed limits where mistakes are most likely to be deadly.