Tesla Talk 2

Extract from article that appeared in Irish Examiner June 23th 2026

Grab me a ticket for that time machine.

You'd have to be a bit sceptical about vague info like this - I mean, this fairly clued-in forum hadn't heard anything of this nature?

In the current versions of both autosteer and the European FSD there are no speed profiles but you can set the maximum offset by percentage or a set value.

Incidentally Sweden is reportedly going to vote against FSDS approval because it can speed due to this if the user so decides.

To the bureaucrats there this is only a problem with the FSD Supervised, while all the other cruise control and autosteer implementations out there are fine if they can potentially break the speed limit.

Very few cars, including a Tesla, have a totally accurate speedo. You have to be able to adjust the offset a bit above the the posted limit. Mine for example is set at +2% which is very close to the actual GPS speed leading to 61, 102 etc etc.

Ego a bit bruised? Am attaching the full press article which included the quote from Department of Transport and the direct quotation. Personally i have no reason to doubt its authenticity. Everyday is a school day!!

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/economy/arid-41861430.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawShOdNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB0RXdjMk56N2VzVmVsbFE2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqmCRtCWLW_2wPfFp-5eD8Mvv7fwPEZcP0z1zSUQVsCCk7aJIQVVmSK2iJeI_aem_x88jirw_xgd-MsosJhGY9g

It's a tall order as variables like tyre pressure and depth of tyre tread affect the displayed speed. And it's illegal for the speed displayed to be less than the actual speed at any moment.

It's a legal EU thing, indicated speed must be somewhere between real speed and real speed + 10% + 4km/h

i.e. a real speed of 160km/h must be showing as anything between 160km/h and 180km/h on the speedo

Cars sold in the US (thus Teslas sold here too) usually show a speed just above the actual speed. That explains your Model Y

Flew under the radar a bit, no? Going back to last October, yet nary a mention on here?

I think you are the first person to post this info - unless I completely missed it. Given listermint's fondness for the topic I suspect had it been widely known he at least would have mentioned it, and certainly Unkel and Gumbo would have at least mentioned it in passing.

You've also got to ask yourself the source of the article - government clearly - I mean, read that in one way it says absolutely nothing except "slow down there horse, we're working on something in the background, but what that is I'm not really going to share other than it's definitely a "framework" of some sort".

"Working on something" is a great way of saying "we're not looking at your sh1t just yet", which is kinda what the Tesla drivers on this forum were expecting and fearing, in equal measures.

You'd have to wonder eh? 😅

To be very fair, LM is usually up on his info and is genuinely interested in the topic, so I'm surprised nobody mentioned this body of work being undertaken by Minister O'Brien going all the way back to last October yet.

It's literally like none of us were aware of it, which begs its own question if you think about it.

Might be ok, I've thrown salt over my left shoulder and a black cloth over the bathroom mirror.