This is car news, not home energy news, so it has no direct connection to energy upgrades or rebates for your house. Here's the gist in brief: Tesla's self-driving software, called FSD, was recently approved for use in the Netherlands, making it the first country in Europe to allow it. A tester who has also driven a rival Chinese system, XPeng's VLA 2.0, tried FSD on Dutch roads and found several problems.
The car struggled with narrow roads that lack a center line, sometimes drifting into oncoming traffic's space. It got speed limits wrong, parked illegally, missed changing stoplights, and merged lanes late and awkwardly. At one point the software crashed and locked the driver out, though it gave warning first and didn't cause a dangerous situation. The reviewer felt Tesla's system, which relies on centrally processed data, has more trouble adapting to the different written and unwritten driving rules across European countries compared to the XPeng system, which learns locally and processes more onboard.
The takeaway from the story is that despite the Dutch approval, wider adoption of FSD across Europe looks uncertain for now, and some think competing self-driving systems may end up more advanced there. None of this affects home energy upgrades, rebates, or anything about your house.
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