FSD & Autopilot

Two Grünheide-built Tesla Model Y vehicles are running Europe's first public FSD (Supervised) shuttle service in Germany's Eifel region, ferrying students and seniors for free between schools, doctors and home. The pilot operates ahead of any German FSD type approval.

Tesla's latest FSD release changes how the system handles inattentive drivers — instead of slowing to a stop in the live lane, the car now actively looks for a safe place to pull over and park. Tesla also relaxes the strike lockout so drivers can re-engage FSD immediately after the car parks.

Tesla retroactively unredacted every Robotaxi crash narrative filed with US safety regulators, exposing two low-speed crashes in which human teleoperators — not the self-driving system — were in control of the vehicle.

Tesla has quietly removed Basic Autopilot from the Dutch configurator. New Model 3 and Model Y buyers in the Netherlands now see only FSD (Supervised) at €99 per month — the basic, free traffic-aware cruise + Autosteer tier that came with every Tesla since 2019 is gone.

Flemish Minister Annick De Ridder has cleared Tesla to begin supervised Full Self-Driving testing on Belgian public roads after an accelerated screening, making Belgium the second EU country after the Netherlands to authorise the system for live testing.

A champagne-gold Tesla Cybercab prototype was rear-ended during on-road testing, the first publicly known crash involving Tesla's purpose-built robotaxi. The Cybercab was stopped when struck and pushed into the vehicle ahead, mirroring incidents commonly seen in other autonomous fleets.

Newly built Model Ys at Tesla's Grünheide plant have self-driven a combined 93,000 miles (roughly 150,000 km) on Full Self-Driving since October 2025 — entirely on private factory ground, in a country where FSD is not yet street-legal.

Ireland's Department of Transport has confirmed active discussions with Tesla on approving Full Self-Driving (Supervised), making Ireland the next candidate to join the Netherlands as an EU country with regulator-cleared FSD.

Less than a month after Dutch regulators approved Tesla's FSD Supervised on 10 April 2026, Tesla owners in the Netherlands have already driven 10 million kilometres on the system — roughly 430,000 km per day across an estimated 4,400 to 8,800 vehicles. The data feeds Tesla's neural network training and gives EU regulators an early read on real-world adoption.

Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi service in Texas began operating in the evening on 4 May 2026 and the fully driverless Model Y fleet has grown to 29 vehicles across Austin, Houston and Dallas.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving fleet logged its ten-billionth supervised mile on 3 May 2026, hitting the data threshold Elon Musk publicly named in January as the minimum for safe unsupervised driving. The fleet is now adding roughly 28.8 million miles per day, but Tesla has not removed the supervision requirement and Musk's current public timeline for Unsupervised FSD is Q4 2026 at the earliest.

Tesla will stop selling outright Full Self-Driving licences for €7,500 in the Netherlands on May 15, 2026, just weeks after Dutch regulators approved FSD (Supervised). Owners must order before then and take delivery by June 30 to keep the lifetime option. After that, the only way to use FSD in the Netherlands will be the €99 monthly subscription.

Tesla replaced the catch-all 'Other' reason in the Full Self-Driving disengagement menu with a dedicated 'Navigation' tag in firmware 2026.2.9.9 (FSD v14.3.2 wave two). The change isolates map-related interventions so the AI team can prioritise routing fixes separately from driving-policy issues.

Tesla will not expand its commercial Robotaxi fleet at scale until FSD v15 launches, and is instead seeding small validation fleets in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona to map local driving conditions ahead of the broader rollout.

Tesla confirmed at its Q1 2026 earnings call that legacy HW3 vehicles will receive a stripped-down FSD V14 Lite build, with the US rollout targeted for late June 2026 and international markets — including Europe — to follow once regional approvals close.

The Strängnäs municipality in Sweden has granted Tesla a one-year permit to test Full Self-Driving on local public roads. The approval covers municipal streets only — Tesla already has clearance for state roads — and cannot be used until Sweden's Transport Agency, Transportstyrelsen, signs off on the operational details.

On the Q1 2026 earnings call (22 April), Elon Musk admitted Hardware 3 Teslas cannot achieve Unsupervised Full Self-Driving and offered a discounted AI4 trade-in. Autopilot lead Ashok Elluswamy confirmed a stripped-down FSD v14 Lite for HW3 cars by late June. The European HW3 collective claim now has its smoking gun.

Tesla has launched its Robotaxi ride-hailing app on the Google Play Store in the United States, ending nearly a year of iPhone-only access. The Android release coincides with an expanding unsupervised Robotaxi service across Texas and broader U.S. markets, though European availability is not yet on the roadmap.

On the Q1 2026 earnings call, Tesla confirmed that Hardware 3 vehicles cannot achieve Unsupervised FSD because HW3 has one-eighth of HW4's memory bandwidth. The company will offer a hardware retrofit via dedicated 'microfactories' in major cities and will ship an FSD V14 Lite build to HW3 cars by the end of June 2026.

Spain's national traffic authority confirmed Tesla is testing FSD (Supervised) on Spanish public roads with 30 vehicles that have logged nearly 80,000 km since November 2025, with zero reported incidents. Commercial availability for customers is not yet on the table.

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.