Latvia has approved Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for what was called Full Self-Driving (Supervised). The country’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) said on Monday, October 26, that it recognizes the provisional EU type approval issued by the Dutch vehicle authority RDW. Tesla’s Europe account wrote “Now approved in Latvia. Rollout begins soon.”
What’s allowed
CSDD classifies it as a Level 2 driver-assistance system, not a self-driving car. It can follow speed limits, brake, steer, change lanes and handle intersections along a navigation route. Drivers don’t have to keep their hands on the wheel constantly, but they must watch the road and be ready to take over, and a cabin camera tracks their attention. If warnings are ignored repeatedly, the system becomes temporarily unavailable. It’s only available on Tesla models with the software covered by the RDW approval.
CSDD said Tesla made changes for the approval, including a lower threshold for exceeding the speed limit, an automatic reset after each trip of any speed offset the driver sets, and stronger driver monitoring.
How long it took
The RDW issued its approval on April 10 and Tesla asked Latvia to recognize it on April 13. Latvian officials later asked for more information, including about winter operation, and Latvia’s Ministry of Economics recommended recognition in September. Latvia joins the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia and Slovakia, which approved the system earlier this month. Reuters says Tesla is seeking support ahead of a key vote that could open an EU-wide rollout, while countries including Sweden, Germany and France are still reviewing it.
Sources: Electric Vehicles, iNews.lv (Latvian) and Reuters via Telegraph India.
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