EVwire brief: Tesla has completed the 5,000 kilometers (3,107 miles) of Full Self-Driving (FSD) testing required on Belgian public roads, Flemish Mobility Minister Annick De Ridder confirmed on X.
With the driving done, the test file has moved to De Ridder's administration for its formal advice on homologation. However, Flanders still hasn't received the complete homologation file from the Netherlands' road authority, RDW. The Mobility Minister noted that her administration needs the homologation file to base a correct advice on all the facts.
"The 5000 kilometers for Tesla FSD have been driven. The file is now with my administration for advice. [...] To be continued, I'll keep pulling the cart for the fastest possible homologation in Flanders and thus Belgium."
Here's De Ridder's update on X:
Context:
Belgium’s 5,000-km test was designed to map how FSD Supervised handles situations specific to Belgian roads, particularly those that differ from the Dutch network, such as tram interactions, bicycle streets, built-up-area detection, supplementary signs, bicycle suggestion lanes, and temporary signaling at construction sites.
The missing RDW file matters because the Netherlands was the first European country to formally approve FSD Supervised, through a provisional RDW type approval. Flanders wants the RDW’s documentation to inform its own advice rather than start the assessment from scratch, so until the paperwork lands, the administration can't finalize its recommendation, even with the testing already done.
The driving is the part Tesla controls. The next step now sits with two administrations and a missing file.
Belgium is already falling behind some European countries. Tesla Europe announced FSD Supervised’s approval in Lithuania less than 40 days after the RDW’s approval, and Estonia, which only launched Tesla sales this April, followed just nine days later with its own FSD Supervised approval.
It's a strange spot to be in: the hard, technical part is finished, and the thing now holding up a Belgian decision is a document that has to travel from one government to another. The fast-track is only as fast as its slowest envelope.
Source: Annick De Ridder on X
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