Tesla gets go-ahead to sell self-driving technology in Belgium

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – (This June 10 story has been corrected to say that Estonia and Denmark have also approved Tesla’s driver assistance software, in paragraph 4)

Tesla Full Self-Driving supervised driver assistance software has been authorised ​in Belgium, Annick De ​Ridder, the transport minister of ⁠Flanders region said on Wednesday ​in a post on X.

“I ​just signed the approval,” she said in a post on X featuring ​a picture of an official ​signed document.

The approval allows Tesla to roll ‌out ⁠its technology after the company successfully carried out a series of tests in the ​country, she ​said. ⁠Authorisations granted in one of the three Belgian ​regions are valid in ​all ⁠the country’s territories.

Belgium is the fifth country in the EU ⁠to ​do so after ​the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia and Denmark.

Reporting by ​Inti Landauro; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise