en.Wedoany.com Reported - Tesla's "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" driver assistance system has been approved for deployment in Belgium, marking the fifth European country where the system is authorized. Previously, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, and Denmark had already allowed the feature on roads. The Flemish Minister of Mobility signed the approval document on Wednesday and announced the news on X (formerly Twitter). However, Tesla still needs to pass certain tests before officially rolling out the feature to local users.

Regarding the technical progress of Full Self-Driving (FSD), a Wall Street analyst recently claimed that the system has "effectively achieved Level 4 autonomous driving (at least under most conditions)." A user named Steve Shaw commented on this, describing the current state of FSD: the system falls into what the industry commonly calls "L2++," a driver assistance system that can typically maneuver the vehicle under favorable weather conditions, but human drivers must remain vigilant and ready to take over at any time. The system may approach Level 3 under limited conditions, such as on divided highways in good weather.

The comment also noted that the analyst's claim of being "safe enough to launch a robotaxi fleet" should be viewed with caution. Fleet operations represent a controlled scenario; Tesla previously had data labelers annotate every significant feature in Austin for months, and this data was used to train autonomous driving models to improve the robotaxi's ability to recognize targets, effectively equivalent to pre-mapping a city. While Tesla's general model means the data benefits all regions, improving FSD (Supervised) in consumer vehicles and potentially accelerating the rollout of robotaxi services, this remains unproven until seeing hundreds of vehicles conducting multiple trips daily in several Texas cities. The comment warned that Tesla might soon boast about its robotaxi mileage rapidly increasing from a small amount to 10 million miles, but noted that most of these miles likely come from 500 vehicles in the San Francisco area, operated by human drivers and registered as ordinary human taxi services—conflating autonomous and human-driven mileage is misleading.

There is still a long way from robotaxi services to consumer-facing Level 4 autonomy. Consumer scenarios involve too many variables, and a "near-L4" system lacking local maps and radar (or lidar) is hard to trust. The comment suggested that governments should require all consumer autonomous driving modes to directly report takeover events to agencies, allowing personnel to describe the reasons for intervention through in-car options, thereby obtaining accurate data and avoiding differing views on Tesla's achievements.

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