Finland becomes the 11th European country to approve Tesla's Assisted Driving

Finland's transport and communications agency, Traficom, has given Tesla's Assisted Driving system a temporary approval for use. The system was previously offered as Full Self-Driving, and Finland is the 11th European country to approve it.

According to Traficom, some features that affect speed control were changed. Settings that let drivers keep asking for speeds up to 50% above the limit were restricted, and preferences that allow speeding go back to the defaults each time the car is restarted. Drivers also get fuller information about the speed settings the system chooses.

Traficom said the new name should help drivers and consumers understand what the system really is. About 8,000 to 9,000 Teslas in Finland support Assisted Driving, around 0.3% of the country's cars, and the approval applies at national level.

Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia and now Finland have approved the system nationally. It has no EU-wide approval, which needs the support of a qualified majority of member states, and a rejection in a European vote would also cancel the national approvals.