India, April 30 -- A week after postponing his much anticipated India visit, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a seemingly impromptu trip to China on the 28th of April, reportedly to seek approval for Tesla's patented Fully Self-Driving or FSD technology. According to a report by Reuters, Musk made an unannounced visit to Beijing to discuss the rollout of Full Self Driving (FSD) software in China and seek permission to transfer the data overseas.

Tesla's existing Advanced Driver Assistance System, Autopilot has been subject to intense legal scrutiny in the US, where the carmaker had to recall over 2 million vehicles following a series of crashes. The recall, which was initiated to install new safeguards to the Autopilot software was followed by 2...