Tesla touts European supervised self-driving safety data ahead of EU vote

STOCKHOLM, Sept 1 : Tesla's supervised self-driving technology recorded 4.1 times fewer collisions than manually driven Tesla cars in the five European countries where it is permitted, the automaker said on Tuesday, as it steps up lobbying efforts ahead of an EU vote on wider deployment.The Netherlands in April became the first European country to grant provisional approval for Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, prompting Belgium, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania to follow suit ahead of a European Union vote on broader approval.Tesla said its findings were based on more than 100 million km (62 million miles) of driving data collected between April and August in those five countries, where FSD-equipped cars were involved in three collisions on highways and nine on non-highway roads, comp