UNECE appoves hands-off driving up to 130kph and the unconfirmed lane change! 

Thanks for keeping us updated on UNECE regulations, Steven!

Thank you ever so much, Steve, for your excellent updates on FSD et cetera. You are our go-to person in Europe for information on this important and exciting topic. I am hugely impressed by your command of your topic and congratulations on your excellent English! John Daly

thx and peace

Thank you for your updates!

I liked using NoA on long journeys and unfamiliar routes on motorways; I did find it very reassuring that it would take the correct off-ramp, especially at complex junctions where there were multiple exits. Honestly, I'm pretty annoyed with UNECE for removing functionality that worked pretty well for getting off the motorway safely (since Autopilot then automatically slows down if approaching a roundabout). This feels like the competitors whining like babies and telling the teacher on Tesla. Joining a motorway from a slip road was always a bit lacking but then I wouldn't mind so much if they only removed that functionality because of the complexities joining an active lane. Totally different from getting off onto an empty slip road, which worked great.

Awesome !! Great news thanks for the update

Excellent as always- Tesla is just too far away from the necessary standard- my car is yet to fully understand multiple traffic lights

Very interesting. Thank you.

Interesting information and details Steven, definitely Tesla must not fall behind by a small lack of attention.

Thanks for your update Steven. I agree with the removal of the unconfirmed auto exit feature. I don't find it reliable here in the UK and didn't feel safe with it. I also agree with the regs that the car shouldn't change lanes on it's own unless the vendor takes responsibility for the lane change (i.e. L3 minimum). This halfway house they have in the US encourages people to feel the system is more capable than it actually is. You mentioned several things that Euro Tesla can't do that precludes it from L3 certification. Could you elaborate? I'd love to be able to use mine in an L3 mode even if only on freeways and in specific conditions. Would make FSD good value for money (currently) if they did but I suspect they are pushing for L4 only and leapfrogging L3....

Thx Steven, great news !

Thanks a lot for the detailed video! As usual very informative 🙏

Thanks for your work! Do you know what is actually missing for Tesla fsd to be level3? For example, they are currently tracking driver attention which is one request I guess.

You’re saying that Tesla are missing some feature for before being ably to apply for L3, is it purely software features or hardware as well?

Great update, thanks for your videos. If Tesla decides today, they want to get the level 3 approval for highway, how long do you think that would take until it is approved in Germany?

The EQS 580 looks amazing

Thank you very much Steven for this very informative video! It's good that the UNECE is now finally moving forward and I think this was mainly done by Mercedes. While Mercedes is working on level 3, Tesla is working on level 4 and I could understand, that applying for a level 3 certification isn't the highest priority right now. Nevertheless, from the marketing perspective it would be good for Tesla to apply for the certification. I still believe that the Mercedes system is pure marketing (it does not scale), but it's a smart move by them. Steven, let's say that would apply for the level 3 certification. Do you think Tesla is able to fulfill all the UNECE requierments today?

So I’m guessing we won’t be seeing FSD beta in EU until at least next year? :/

Any Updates?

I got the dreaded 2022.16.3 update. NoA is officially dead in EU.

The main missing feature is simply that the system must be stable and make no mistakes. There should be millions of km between mistakes which means the average person would never experience it. And yet I had to do a disengagement as late as yesterday when the car suddenly tried to do a hard right turn while traveling at 110 km/h. The cause was some pavement that had been redone and the markings were missing. There was no road work restrictions posted so the system would have accepted the conditions. And while more rare now, ghost braking is still something that happens. We also used to have a piece of highway where autopilot would drift from one lane to the other - they renewed the line markings so does not happen anymore but I really doubt Tesla fixed anything. We do however have a piece with a highway merger where autopilot makes some really hard and worrying steering movements because the lane becomes very wide for a short while. Everyone must think you are having a stroke or driving really drunk. The FSD computer is build with redundancy. They have two computing units so the system can continue even if one fails. This is a requirement. But it does not work. I have had several instances where Autopilot disengages with no warning and then stays off for the remaining drive. In other words, autopilot crashed and failed to recover. It is supposed to scream at me to take over and if I do not then bring the car to a slow halt. But that is not what happens, the disengagement is instant and from that point on there is zero driver assist. Not good enough for level 3 requirements. I am convinced that the new visual engine of FSD Beta could generate a much better understanding of the road and help the system to avoid making such crude mistakes. However it appears Tesla is not putting any effort into using this technology on the highway. All development of FSD Beta is going towards city driving which will be many years before accepted here. In my view it is not so much that AP and FSD is lacking some features but more that the system is simply not good enough to get certified. The reason for this is that Tesla has stopped trying.

VW leading in auto-park and MB in m/w while we have cars that could easily do both ... fingers crossed Tesla sort this out by January. Maybe Elon meant March *2023* not 2022 for EU-AP updates. 🤣🤣

I don't understand why the UNECE would approve a broader skill-set for Level 3 than for Level 2 so adding unconfirmed lane-changes to Level 3 and not Level 2 legislation is odd - especially as Tesla's system has more than proved itself in the US. Could this be another example of Daimler's lobbying? And, if so, why isn't Tesla also lobbying hard?

130kph? k is 1000, so 130000 per hour, but what? kmph, or more human readable km/h