FSD & Autopilot

Tesla launched its unsupervised Robotaxi service in Houston and Dallas on April 18, 2026, marking the first expansion beyond Austin and San Francisco. The two cities add roughly 40–50 square miles of driverless coverage as Tesla pushes toward seven US cities by mid-year.

A Czech citizen has filed an official government petition asking the Ministry of Transport to expedite adoption of Tesla’s FSD Supervised system, days after the Netherlands became the first EU country to approve it. The petition has 557 signatures and is open until October 2026.

Tesla Insurance's new Safety Score 3.0 automatically assigns a perfect 100 to every mile driven under FSD (Supervised), earning eligible drivers up to a 10% discount on core coverages. The scheme is live in six US states — a pattern that hints at how Tesla may eventually price insurance in Europe once FSD rolls out more broadly.

After Tesla rolled out FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands on 10 April 2026, owners of pre-2024 vehicles with Hardware 3 discovered their cars were silently excluded from the type approval. A Dutch-led collective, hw3claim.nl, is now bundling European HW3 owners for a legal claim against Tesla, arguing the company promised Full Self-Driving at purchase and is instead offering a stripped-down 'v14 Lite' later in the quarter.

The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has granted Tesla type approval for FSD Supervised under UN R-171, making the Netherlands the first European country to approve the system. Subscriptions cost €99/month (€49 for EAP owners) or €7,500 outright. Rollout has begun on Hardware 4 vehicles.

The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has granted Tesla type approval for FSD Supervised under UN R-171, making the Netherlands the first European country to approve the system. Germany, France, and Italy are expected to follow by mid-2026.

Elon Musk confirms that FSD version 15 will deploy a 10-billion-parameter AI model — ten times larger than the current v14 branch. The upgrade was delayed because the smaller model kept improving faster than expected.

Tesla has begun remotely disabling Full Self-Driving on vehicles using third-party CAN bus devices to bypass regional locks, affecting owners across Europe, China, South Korea, and Turkey.

Elon Musk confirms Tesla's next-generation FSD v15 will use a model with 10 times more parameters, while the newly released v14.3 already shows significant improvements in reaction time and smoothness.

Intel has joined the Terafab joint venture alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build the world's most advanced AI chip factory at Giga Texas. The project aims to reduce dependence on Asian semiconductor supply chains.

Roughly 60 Tesla Model Y vehicles with specialised rear camera washers have been spotted staging in Phoenix, signalling that the city's robotaxi launch is imminent. Tesla aims to expand to seven new US cities in H1 2026.

Tesla's FSD v14.3 enters employee beta with a wide US release imminent, while the Netherlands regulator RDW is expected to grant Europe's first FSD approval on April 10.

Tesla’s FSD approval in the Netherlands has slipped from March 20 to April 10, the latest in a series of missed European deadlines. Meanwhile, NHTSA has upgraded its FSD investigation to an Engineering Analysis covering 3.2 million vehicles — typically the last step before a recall — citing concerns about poor visibility conditions and railroad crossing incidents.

Tesla targets February 2026 for Dutch RDW approval of FSD Supervised in Europe, while extending its public ride-along program through March 2026 across Germany, France, and Italy. The regulatory path requires UN-R-171 compliance and Article 39 exemptions for features like hands-off lane changes.

Tesla's European FSD ride-along programme has expanded beyond Italy, France, and Germany to include Denmark and Switzerland, with sessions now running through March 2026.

Tesla begins free Full Self-Driving demo rides in Italy, France, and Germany, as the Dutch regulator RDW targets FSD approval by February 2026.

UNECE Regulation 171 amendments take effect September 26, enabling system-initiated manoeuvres on European highways — a milestone for Tesla's FSD rollout across eight testing markets.

Tesla launched FSD Beta Phase 1 in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden in July 2025. Roughly 50,000 European Tesla owners with Hardware 4.0 vehicles were invited, with the early access program running through September before wider expansion.

Tesla officially launched its robotaxi ride-hailing service in Austin on June 22, starting with 20 driverless Model Y vehicles in a geofenced area at a flat $4.20 fare.

Tesla demonstrated FSD Supervised driving on Rome's streets in June 2025, while pursuing regulatory approval through the Netherlands as a gateway to broader EU deployment.

Tesla deployed Full Self-Driving features to Chinese customers in February 2025 through software updates, charging 64,000 yuan ($8,831) for capabilities similar to US FSD, with performance averaging 624 miles between human interventions.

Tesla dropped the 'Beta' label from FSD in 2024, renaming it 'FSD Supervised.' Version 12.3 deployed end-to-end driving to the full fleet, v12.5 unified highway and city, and v13.2 brought a new architecture. Europe still waited.

Tesla rewrote FSD from the ground up in 2023, replacing hand-coded rules with an end-to-end neural network in version 12. The result was a system that drove more like a human, though FSD remained absent from Europe.

FSD v12, released in late 2023, replaced Tesla's hand-coded driving rules with a single end-to-end neural network. The system drove more naturally, but the architectural gamble placed Tesla's autonomy ambitions on a fundamentally different path.