Emails obtained by Reuters and reported by Electrek show Tesla spent months pressing the Dutch vehicle regulator RDW to ease its review of “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).” Tesla called RDW’s €365,000 invoice an “extremely high cost,” said it would withhold payment without an hour-by-hour accounting, and pushed back on an inspector traveling to witness tests and on meetings about over-the-air updates. RDW later offered remote monitoring and said it shared
Tesla pressed Dutch regulator to ease FSD review, emails show
Emails show Tesla pushed Dutch regulator RDW to cut review costs and tests, while its safety evidence is too small to support 'lives saved' claims.
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