Tesla’s European dream just tripped over Sweden. According to Reuters, the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, is urging the EU not to approve Full Self-Driving until Tesla disables the feature that lets the car exceed the posted speed limit. One little setting, one giant headache.
This isn’t about banning the system outright. It’s about where the Swedish regulator plants its flag before the EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) meets on June 30. In its letter, Trafikverket put it bluntly: an automated system that systematically breaks the speed limit undermines both the rules of the road and the very safety gains these technologies are supposed to deliver.
The flashpoint is a feature called Speed Offset. It lets the driver set a fixed margin above the legal limit, and the car cruises along that shifted ceiling. Tesla built it in to match how people actually drive. Swedish regulators see exactly what an approved autonomous system shouldn’t do.
And Sweden isn’t alone. Finland and Norway have already voiced their own concerns. Meanwhile, the Dutch regulator RDW is pushing the other way, lobbying hard for a bloc-wide rollout — it was RDW’s provisional approval in April that opened the door for everyone else. FSD Supervised is already cleared in the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Belgium. But EU-wide approval is a different beast: it needs a qualified majority — 15 countries representing 65% of the EU population. A Nordic bloc could smash that arithmetic.
Tesla itself didn’t respond to Reuters. The company’s user manual says the driver must watch the road and obey speed limits — the human stays on the hook. Logical enough on paper. Sweden, evidently, isn’t buying it.
Earlier, it was reported that Tesla had received a patent for an active suspension system for its vehicles.
