EVwire brief: Sweden's Minister for Infrastructure and Housing, Andreas Carlson, has stated that the Swedish government's "starting point and ambition" is that EU-wide approval of advanced driver-assistance systems such as Tesla FSD Supervised "should be put in place."
The statement was shared on X by Alexander Kristensen, who posted a screenshot of the official Swedish government letter along with a translation. The original document is published on the Swedish Riksdag website.
Here’s the letter:
Carlson’s letter on FSD’s approval (Source)
Carlson’s letter on FSD’s approval, translated to English (Source)
The letter is an official answer to written parliamentary question 2025/26:1000, submitted on August 17 by Rickard Nordin, a member of the Centre Party. Nordin asked whether the minister intended to take any initiatives in light of Trafikverket's position and recommendation to the EU's technical committee regarding FSD Supervised.
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Here is part of Carlson's response:
“As I have previously stated, it is the Government’s starting point and ambition that a Union-wide approval of advanced driver assistance systems such as Tesla FSD (Supervised) should be put in place. Such approvals are always preceded.”
He adds that such approvals must always be preceded by evaluations and analyses of available material "in order to guarantee safety in the use of these systems." While this is definitely diplomatic language, the direction is unmistakable. The Swedish government is practically saying "we want this to happen, subject to the safety case being met."
Sweden's earlier opposition was specific and public. Trafikverket sent a formal letter to the TCMV arguing that allowing an automated system to systematically exceed legal speed limits "risks undermining both the legal framework and the expected safety benefits of vehicle automation." A Swedish investigator back then even expressed surprise that the system was permitted to exceed speed limits at all.
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Context:
The TCMV is scheduled to vote on October 6 on whether to extend FSD Supervised approval from the current five countries (the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, and Belgium) to the entire EU under UNECE R171.01 exemptions. Approval requires a qualified majority of at least 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of the EU population.
Tesla's FSD Evidence Dashboard, published on August 28, consolidated nine findings across three datasets showing FSD Supervised vehicles were involved in 4.1× fewer crashes than manually driven Teslas across 102 million km of European driving. The dashboard also included speed compliance data from the European engineering fleet: across 708 samples, 98% of FSD Supervised driving was at or below median traffic speed, directly addressing the kind of speed-related concern that Trafikverket raised.
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