The Dutch certified Tesla’s FSD in April while Tesla was handing regulators in the Netherlands and Sweden self-published statistics that ten of eleven independent researchers call misleading marketing, and while U.S. federal investigations into that same system were open.

RDW says it relied on its own road and test-track work rather than Tesla’s numbers. That makes them seem incompetent, but ok. It will not say whether it ever assessed the numbers, because that might expose them as corrupt as well.

Either way the Dutch certificate is bad.

They got caught because nobody with a brain believes Tesla “self driving” is safe. A test track cannot validate Tesla’s statistics, any more than you can milk a chicken.

The fact that the Dutch RDW refuses to explain themselves is embarrassing to the EU. RDW is their rapporteur. It’s been carrying Tesla’s application onward while it describes its method in general terms and withholds whether it tested the figures Tesla was circulating. That is a regulator behaving like a coin-operated issuing agency, and not a body that can screen.