Tesla's driver assistance software was approved in Europe with a setting that let it drive half again as fast as the speed limit. Under an update approved this week, the most it can be set to is 10 per cent over, and the system has a new official name: Tesla Assisted Driving.

A dark red Tesla Model Y taxi drives past other cabs outside Rotterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands in June 2025, with its number plate and people nearby blurred. Photo: S5A-0043 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0, modified.