EVwire brief: Flemish Mobility Minister Annick De Ridder has presented Tesla’s Belgian operating figures for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to the Flemish Parliament, showing notably lower crash rates compared to Teslas that were driven manually.
Between June 11 and August 31, Teslas running FSD Supervised in Belgium covered 24.6 million kilometers (15.3 million miles). Off highways, the system's crash rate worked out to roughly 9.6 times lower than manual driving. On highways, where speeds and conditions are more uniform, the improvement was a smaller but still positive 30 percent.
The off-highway split is the most dramatic part of the dataset. One collision over 9.5 million kilometers (5.9 million miles) with FSD Supervised engaged, against 150 collisions over 146.9 million kilometers (91.3 million miles) of manual driving.
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On highways, FSD Supervised logged four incidents over 15.1 million kilometers (9.4 million miles), compared with 32 incidents over 95.1 million kilometers (59.1 million miles) driven manually. Tesla's figures also showed 93 percent fewer automatic emergency braking activations and 82 to 90 percent fewer abrupt maneuvers, like hard braking or sharp swerving, with the system active.
Minister De Ridder framed the results as a case for keeping Flanders open to systems like FSD Supervised.
New technology deserves critical monitoring, but if the data show that it can make our roads safer, we must also dare to utilize that potential. […] road safety and innovation can go hand in hand.
Since Belgium approved FSD Supervised, regulators have logged one reportable crash and four minor incidents that did not have to be reported. In the reportable crash, the driver had already turned FSD Supervised off after leaving a roundabout. The other four were minor, with no injuries, such as a bicycle handlebar hitting a car door. Officials said they found no link between those four incidents and FSD Supervised.
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Context:
Belgium's path to FSD Supervised moved fast. Tesla was cleared to begin public road testing in mid-May, and within about a week the test fleet had grown and surpassed 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) driven. By early June, Tesla had wrapped the full 5,000-kilometer (3,110-mile) local test requirement and was waiting on the paperwork to clear.
That paperwork came through on June 10, when Mobility Minister Annick De Ridder signed off on FSD Supervised for Belgian roads, announcing it on X herself. Thursday's figures are the first real look at how the system has actually performed since Belgian drivers got their hands on it.
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