The EU has already shown it’s willing to fast-track innovative supervised ADAS features under Article 39. With this clear historical green light, FSD Supervised EU rollout looks highly likely this summer. (One vote per member state no weighted power plays.)
Back in March 2024, the EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) voted on Article 39 exemptions for advanced Level 2 ADAS systems (hands-off on highways) from Ford (BlueCruise) and BMW.Result: 89.79% positive votes, zero “no” votes, just one abstention.
The measures passed easily, giving those systems EU-wide type approval. Tesla FSD Supervised is following the exact same Article 39 pathway after the Dutch RDW granted national approval and notifies the Commission (April 2026). Same committee, same one-country-one-vote rules, same qualified-majority threshold.
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FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly!
Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways
No other vehicle can do this.
We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon
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Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation.
Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer.
Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to:
– 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads
– 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs
– 4,500+ track test scenario executions
– Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements
– Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results
We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point.
We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!
@MineCooky Reden wir von V2G oder V2H? Wenn die Netzschutzanforderungen eingehalten werden sollen wird es ohne 15118-20 schwierig, zumindest auf legalem Weg.
Cool to see the industry utilizing the common standard (MCS) right from the ramp up, at least for heavy duty vehicles. Although in Europe we see slow to zero MCS installations of MCS chargepoints so far, as there are no trucks available with it (yet)- chicken/egg problem. Curious to see if Tesla will also have a CCS2 backup solution, not to get stuck on the road @danWpriestley
Tesla has been working hard toward shipping Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe for over 12 months now. We have given FSD demos to regulators of almost every EU country. We have requested early access, pilot release programs or exemptions where possible.
We have developed & shared detailed safety evidence for FSD, now public in our latest Safety Report. And we have driven over 1 million kilometers safely on EU roads across 17 different countries (internal testing).
Our main path to success is partnering with the Dutch approval authority RDW to gain exemption for the feature. This involves proving compliance with existing regulations (UN-R-171 DCAS) + filing an exemption (EU Article 39) for yet-to-be-regulated behaviors like Level 2 systems off-highway, system-initiated lane changes with hands-off the wheel etc.
Some of these regulations are outdated and rules-based, which makes FSD illegal in its current form. Changing FSD to be compliant with these rules would make it unsafe and unusable in many cases. While we have changed FSD to be maximally compliant where it is logical and reasonable, we won't sacrifice the safety of a proven system or materially deteriorate customer usability.
As a result, we are gathering evidence to get exemptions on a specific rule-by-rule basis. Unfortunately, the real world fleet-proven safety wins alone are considered insufficient.
Currently, RDW has committed to granting Netherlands National approval in February 2026. Please contact them via link below to express your excitement & thank them for making this happen as soon as possible. Upon NL National approval, other EU countries can immediately recognize the exemption and also allow rollout within their country. Then we will bring it to a TCMV vote for official EU-wide approval.
We're excited to bring FSD to our owners in Europe soon!
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