Slovakia approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, the company said in a post on X on Friday, Reuters reported. The rollout will begin soon, the company added.
Slovakia's Ministry of Transport said it had officially recognised the Dutch preliminary type approval of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, allowing drivers to use the software on Slovak roads, according to independent outlet eletric-vehicles.com, which cited the ministry's statement. The approval was issued in April by the Dutch vehicle authority RDW, and other member states can recognise it on their territory, which Slovakia did.
"Slovakia is thus one of the few European countries that have permitted its use," the ministry said. The move makes Slovakia the ninth European Union country to allow the driver-assistance software, all of them on the basis of the single approval issued in the Netherlands.
The ministry described FSD (Supervised) as a software package for advanced driver assistance that helps the cars on which it is installed drive in cities and on highways. It can accelerate, brake, steer, change lanes, cross intersections and respond to traffic signs and traffic lights on its own, using cameras and neural networks for partially automated driving.
This is not fully unsupervised driving. The system is a Level 2 driver-assistance system: drivers must remain attentive at all times and be ready to take control. Tesla has renamed the system "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites after Germany's transport ministry called the previous name misleading, according to electrive.com. The approvals so far rest on a provisional EU type approval under Article 39 of EU Regulation 2018/858, not a standard EU-wide type approval.