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Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators

Tesla presented self-published and inflated “Full Self-Driving” safety statistics directly to government regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands as it lobbied for European approval, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters throug…

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Tesla's presentation of safety data to European regulators has been called into question. The company provided self-published statistics to government officials in Sweden and the Netherlands as part of its lobbying efforts for European approval of its "Full Self-Driving" technology. The data, which includes a claim that FSD could have saved 32,000 lives, relies on an assumption that is deemed unrealistic by independent researchers.

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