Federal Transport Minister Steffen Bilger is committed to approving the AI assistance system in Europe.
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Tesla has received approval for its 'Full Self-Driving Supervised' (FSD) system in the Netherlands and seven other EU countries.
The time has already come in the Netherlands, where the US electric car manufacturer Tesla has first received provisional approval. The system is called Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD). Translated, this roughly means: self-driving monitored by humans. Formally, of course, this is a contradiction. Does the electric car drive autonomously or not?
The reality of this AI-supported assistance system is so convincing that seven other EU countries now allow Tesla FSD: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Croatia and Slovenia. Now there is also an initiative from Germany. Federal Transport Minister Steffen Bilger surprisingly announced this week that he was supporting Europe-wide approval. However, he has an important objection to FSD - and he has a linguistic trick.

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Porsche boss Michael Leiters presents the renovation program 'Sportwagenschmiede 35'. The aim is to achieve higher margins through more exclusive models, cost reductions and job cuts of up to 30 percent in order to react to the market slump in China and falling sales figures.
Porsche boss Michael Leiters presents the 'Sports Car Forge '35' strategy. The aim is to achieve higher margins through exclusivity and new luxury models while simultaneously reducing the workforce by 25 percent and massive cost savings in development and administration.