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

This is Tesla and autonomous-vehicle news, not a home energy story, so it has no direct bearing on your house or upcoming upgrades. Here is what happened, in brief.

A Brussels road safety nonprofit, Johanna.be, tested Tesla's "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" system on city streets in July and found it broke the speed limit in 55 percent of the 30 km/h zones it drove through, averaging 44 km/h. It also sped in 42 percent of tested "woonerven" (low-speed residential shared streets) with a 20 km/h limit. Much of the problem traced to the car's display showing a 50 km/h limit in most of the actual 30 zones. The group also saw the system try to pass cyclists on streets where Belgian law bars cars from overtaking bikes at all.

The findings arrive just before European Union member states vote on October 6 on whether to approve FSD across all 27 countries. Sweden, Norway, Finland, and France have already raised speeding as a reason to block or refuse the system. Belgium's Flemish region had already approved FSD in June after Tesla completed required test driving, and a government spokesperson said the system is still "learning" while drivers remain fully responsible. Tesla did not comment. If the EU vote passes, the Dutch approval that started this process would extend to every member state; if speeding concerns prevail, that expansion could stall.