Yesterday I drove 700 kilometers in one day, from France down to the south of Italy. Fifteen hours behind the wheel. Traffic jams, roadworks that never seemed to end, and that heavy feeling in your eyes after the twelfth hour when you know you still have three more to go. Somewhere around the Italian border I kept thinking the same thing. The software that could have carried most of this drive already exists. It's in my car. And neither of the two countries I was driving through allows it yet. Look at the map of Europe right now. Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD Supervised, is approved in 11 countries: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, and as of this week, Finland. Small and mid-sized countries. Together about 70 million people. Germany, France, Italy and Spain have more than 250 million people between them, the longest highways and the heaviest traffic on the continent, and they are still sitting in review. Finland's regulator said it was moving faster than the EU process so Finnish drivers could get used to the system before the hardest winter conditions arrive. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania did the same months ago. They looked at the data, asked Tesla for changes, Tesla made them, and they said yes. Small countries move like startups. Big ones move like committees. A 15 hour drive is where people get hurt. Fatigue on a highway at night is one of the most dangerous things an ordinary person does. Elon Musk's team built software that watches the road with eight cameras and never gets tired, and it turns a drive like mine from exhausting and risky into something normal and safe, with the driver still supervising. An EU wide vote is expected this winter. I can't wait for the day I drive France to Italy again and let the car do the long hours while I just watch the road.