Tesla demoes FSD 12 to European regulators with a Cherry Red Model Y on German roads

A Senior Advisor to the Swedish Transport Administration has been showcased Tesla's FSD 12 driver-assist software, and found it to be an "impressive smooth and natural driving."

Tesla is currently on a regulatory approval spree for the latest version of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) option, and, after the US and Canada, it plans to bring it to Europe and China as well. It even parted ways with its previous Public Policy head in the latest round of layoffs, as it may have felt that things aren't moving fast enough on that front.

Elon Musk recently hinted that FSD will be released in China, with the enigmatic "it may be possible very soon" as an answer to a fan question on X.

The FSD release process is advancing in Europe as well, it seems. According to Rikard Fredriksson, the Senior Advisor to the Swedish Transport Administration, he was taken for a ride by Tesla's Global Policy Lead Marc Van Impe and safety driver Philip Holz in an FSD demo car.

They drove on German roads in a test Midnight Cherry Red Model Y, and Mr Fredriksson came away impressed by the system's driver-assist capabilities. This exclusive color comes from Tesla's advanced paint shop in Giga Berlin, but there are now Midnight Cherry Red paint kits over at Amazon.

Previously, Mr Fredriksson worked for 3 years on the now-defunct Apple Car project in a Product Integrity role concerning "safety of self-driving technologies," so he seems to be exactly the person to evaluate FSD for European regulators.

Tesla is now trying to log as many miles with FSD as possible ahead of its Robotaxi and, potentially, CyberCab service unveil on August 8. The data will be used in a feedback loop to improve the system, with the power of 85,000 Nvidia H100 AI chips that Tesla will have crunching autonomous driving numbers by year's end.

If Tesla can demonstrate that FSD is safer than a human driver with enough data, it will have an easier time convincing regulators to sign off on a fully autonomous Robotaxi or CyberCab service, too.