I bought FSD back in 2019, transferred it to my new Model Y in 2025, and still haven’t been able to use it in any car yet.
I’m driving to Denmark tomorrow, and it would be great to finally activate FSD for the trip. I don’t have very high expectations since the car is registered in Norway, but it would still be nice.
🇳🇴 While the Netherlands tries to fast-track Tesla FSD approval across Europe, Norway — one of the world's most EV-friendly countries — is standing in the way. Because it doesn't trust the paperwork. Norway met with RDW's exemption team to ask questions. Statens Vegvesen notes that Tesla's public marketing materials do not reflect the technical documentation reviewed by regulators - as such, it denied demo-drives. Read more about Norway's position on FSD, updated on July 3rd.
1. "You're breaking the deal we all agreed to." Europe's driver-assistance rulebook, UN Regulation 171, wasn't written overnight — Norway was in the room for years of negotiations. One of the core compromises: systems like this roll out motorways first, then move to "motorway-like" roads later, as confidence builds. The Dutch approval for Tesla FSD skips that step, allowing activation well beyond motorways from day one. Norway's position: It's the deal being broken.
2. Speed limits and cornering forces — exempted. The Dutch type-approval authority, RDW, didn't just bend the rules on where FSD can run — it exempted Tesla from strict speed-limit compliance and from lateral-acceleration limits in curves. Norway says these are protections it specifically fought to get written into UNR171. Watching them get waived for the first real-world test case isn't a great look.
3. RDW's own safety verdict: "marginally positive". Marginally positive — RDW's own words, according to Norwegian officials who reviewed the assessment.
4. The marketing doesn't match the paperwork. This is Norway's sharpest accusation: what Tesla shows regulators and what Tesla shows customers are two different things. Statens Vegvesen has gone on record saying the public-facing marketing for FSD doesn't reflect the technical documentation submitted for approval — and is telling Norwegian consumers to read the owner's manual.
5. Tesla tried to demo FSD to customers in Norway. Regulators said no. Norway currently runs three Tesla vehicles under a national testing exemption. When Tesla proposed opening that up to customer demonstrations, Norwegian regulators rejected the plan — the materials, they said, failed to make clear this is a driver assistance system, not autonomous driving. Tesla was told to fix it, but the fix still hasn't landed.
6. Norway has no vote — and is still the loudest voice in the room. Norway is an EEA country, not an EU member, so it doesn't get to vote in the Technical Committee – Motor Vehicles (TCMV), where this all gets decided. It can only observe, ask questions, and submit written objections. And yet, in the most recent TCMV session, Norway was one of only a handful of countries that bothered to show up with detailed written questions at all.
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Elon,
could you and @tesla please consider that HW3 owners have some privilege of transfer or similar rather than this sharp cut-off?
They surely have been patient and deserve something, right?
@elonmusk