{"id":40882,"date":"2026-10-13T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/tesla-renames-full-self-driving-to-assisted-driving-in-europe-to-secure-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T22:40:19","slug":"tesla-renames-full-self-driving-to-assisted-driving-in-europe-to-secure-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/tesla-renames-full-self-driving-to-assisted-driving-in-europe-to-secure-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Assisted Driving in Europe to secure approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has renamed its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe, following criticism from German authorities that the original name was misleading. The new name has already appeared on Tesla&#8217;s European websites, but it&#8217;s still called Full Self-Driving in the US (and elsewhere).<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the change is Germany&#8217;s Transport Minister. Steffen Bilger argued that the system doesn&#8217;t offer fully autonomous driving, despite its name. It handles steering, acceleration, braking, and navigation, but drivers must remain attentive and ready to take control at all times.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The name change is part of Tesla&#8217;s efforts to secure EU-wide approval for the technology. The Netherlands became the first EU country to approve the system in April,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/tesla_renames_full_self_driving_in_europe_to_tesla_assisted_driving-news-6297.php\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has renamed its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe, following criticism from German authorities that the original name was misleading. The new name has already appeared on Tesla&#8217;s European websites, but it&#8217;s still called Full Self-Driving in the US (and elsewhere). The reason for the change is Germany&#8217;s Transport Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,108],"class_list":["post-40882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}