For instance UNECE regulation 79 prevents FSD from using its full capacity to turn the steering wheel.
It's a rat's nest of red tape.
The real problem is that Tesla sold this in Europe, but never put the slightest effort towards actually developing the localized ML model that could make it work. (Of course the hardware sucks too, but they could have done a much better job with it.)
If it's really due to a patent, that just makes it worse. Tesla has known all along that they can't deliver the product they sold.
FSD is literally improving exponentially, looking at it in Europe (where it is blocked by regulators with economic incentives to delay Tesla's progress) is like looking at a fully fueled rocket ship at ignition and complaining that it is not moving.
Go take a ride in a new Model Y with hardware 4 and V13 software in North America and you'll realize how the EU regulators are screwing over European customers.
yeah, how could we expect software developers to write code that can replaces "z" with "s", handle extra "u"s and divide numbers by 1.6? </s>
This is sad and atrocious. Not only a Ford Puma (an econobox compared to a Tesla) can read almost all speed limit signs correctly, it can pull speed limit data correctly from its onboard maps when there are no signs. These maps can be updated via WiFi or an on board modem too.
Tesla mocked "big auto industry", but that elephant proved that it can run if it needs to.
Isn't that the bare minimum requirement for how commerce is supposed to function?
But my guess is that it's a defense mechanism, essentially the Just World fallacy. "It would really suck to have that bad thing happen to me through no fault of my own. *spoink!* I'm careful (and smart) therefore bad things won't happen to me" (https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1999-09-08)
My mistake was assuming this company had the slightest decency to sell things they could actually deliver.
I know because I’m one of them. FSD paid in full almost seven years ago, still does absolutely nothing in Europe. A five-year-old would do a better job at driving because the Tesla can’t even see speed limit signs correctly.
Tesla takes no responsibility for their misleading marketing and years of lies. Most recently Musk promised in early 2025 that these old cars would get a hardware update that will finally enable the paid-for FSD (as if…) The company itself pretends to know nothing about this latest promise made by its CEO.
It’s insane that a business with a trillion-dollar market cap operates like this. It seems to be more of a cult than a real company.