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Anton Petrunin
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Your metric has to be geodesic, in particular $$d(x,y)=\min \{\,1,|x-y|\,\}$$ is not Finsler in your sense.

Now let $d$ be a geodesic metric on $\mathbb{R}^n$.

Suppose $n=2$. In "Two counterexamples..." by Burago, Ivanov, and Shoenthal, it was conjectured that a neighborhood of any point in $(\mathbb{R}^2,d)$ admits a Lipschitz embedding into the Euclidean plane.

Suppose $d$ is a Finsler metric in your sense. Since $\mu$ is continuous, the natural map $(\mathbb{R}^n,d)\to \mathbb{R}^n$ is a locally lipschitz homeomorphism. So this conjecture is closely related to your question.

Now suppose $n=3$. The same paper provides an example of a metric $d$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ that (locally) does not admit a Lipschitz embedding into $\mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, $d$ is not a Finsler metric in your sense. (The construction is interesting --- it is worth reading.)

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