Whenever I tell someone we drive a Tesla, I almost always get that knowing little murmur: “Ah, you belong to that cult.”

At first I used to defend our choice by explaining that we live in central Stockholm and wanted to future-proof ourselves against coming regulations. Three years later, I’m simply tired of the snide comments.

The worst part is the constant talk about how FSD “can have a technical fault and kill people.” As if human drivers don’t make fatal mistakes every single day. In fair comparisons (such as crashes involving airbag deployment), statistics show that FSD is approximately 2–4 times safer than the average human driver in many scenarios.

If the Swedish Transport Agency’s main objection is that the car sometimes exceeds the speed limit, then logically no human should be allowed to drive either — since humans speed all the time.

The double standard is glaring.