By Inti Landauro<\/p>\n
BRUSSELS, May 5 (Reuters) – Tesla’s aim to roll out its supervised “full self-driving” software in Europe got a boost from \u200cBelgium on Tuesday, where the Flanders region said it was \u200clooking into whether it can quickly adopt it following approval in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands’ regulator \u200bprovisionally approved the use of the software on Dutch roads last month, making it the first country in the EU to allow the software, which can control a car but requires drivers to pay attention.<\/p>\n
Annick De Ridder, \u200cthe transport minister for \u2060Flanders, the mainly Dutch-speaking half of Belgium which borders the Netherlands, said in a post on X that she \u2060had asked Tesla to provide documents so as to possibly follow suit in her region.<\/p>\n
Her team would make clear by the end of the week \u200bwhether a \u200bfast-track approval is possible, De Ridder \u200badded.<\/p>\n
“Because you shouldn’t slow down \u200cinnovation, but make it possible in a thoughtful and safe way. This way, we keep Flanders at the forefront as a forward-thinking region,” she said in her post.<\/p>\n
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has projected confidence that the EU will soon green-light its FSD, though several regulators in countries such \u200cas Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway have \u200bshown skepticism toward the technology and its \u200bstated safety benefits.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson \u200bfor Belgium’s central transport ministry said the issue was up \u200cto regions and not a \u200bmatter for the central \u200bgovernment.<\/p>\n
Tesla has also filed a request to Belgium’s other main region, mainly French-speaking Wallonia, its ministry said. A spokesperson for Brussels, the \u200bcapital, which is \u200ca separate third region, did not immediately respond to a request \u200bfor comment.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Inti Landauro, Marie Mannes and Chris KirkhamEditing \u200bby Philip Blenkinsop and Peter Graff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Inti Landauro BRUSSELS, May 5 (Reuters) – Tesla’s aim to roll out its supervised “full self-driving” software…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9654,7,9655,1023,8043,9652,9656],"class_list":{"0":"post-14223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-annick-de-ridder","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-flanders-region","11":"tag-netherlands","12":"tag-software","13":"tag-tesla","14":"tag-tesla-ceo-elon-musk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116523152280645198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}