Tesla's official approval video for its Full Self-Driving system in Denmark shows the car using a bicycle lane — 12 seconds in.
Tesla submitted promotional footage as part of its regulatory approval process for FSD in Denmark. In that footage, the vehicle enters a protected bicycle lane on a Copenhagen street within the first 12 seconds of the clip. The problems don't stop there — the original reporting notes things deteriorate as the video continues. The footage was apparently part of the materials used to grant the system approval for Danish roads.
Denmark is one of the most cycling-dependent countries in Europe; Copenhagen's protected lanes carry enormous daily ridership and are central to how the city manages pedestrian and cyclist safety. That a regulator appears to have cleared the system after reviewing video containing this kind of observable error raises a harder question than whether Tesla's software is ready — it asks how seriously the approval process itself was conducted.
Automakers seeking AV approvals in new markets tend to submit their own demonstration footage rather than face independent testing. Denmark may have just made the case for why that should change.