The Netherlands' vehicle authority RDW has approved changes Tesla asked for in its driver-assistance system, and they confirm a speed cap that until now only Germany had announced. In a notice published on 3 November 2026, the RDW says the margin by which a driver can let the system exceed the speed limit falls from +50% to a maximum of +10%, and that the system's European name, Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD), will now appear in the car.
What the RDW approved
| Setting | After the update |
|---|---|
| Name in the car, the manual and all driver information | Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD), replacing FSD (Supervised) |
| Maximum speed margin the driver can set | +10%, down from +50% |
| Speed margin each time the car starts | 0% |
| Other speed-related functions | Off by default |
| Cars covered | Tesla Assisted Driving cars with Hardware 4 (HW4) or later |
The speed margin is the percentage by which the system may deviate from the applicable limit when this is needed for safety and traffic flow, in the RDW's words. On a 100 km/h road, the highest speed a driver can allow drops from 150 km/h to 110 km/h.
The RDW says the new name does not change how the system works. It remains a driver-assistance system, and the driver remains responsible for driving.
Why the approval did not need amending
Tesla asked the RDW to assess "a number of minor changes". The authority checked how they were implemented and how the system behaves with them, and found no adverse or unintended effects on the system or on how the car drives. It added the changes to the approval it had already granted, so the type approval stays valid on the same conditions and for the same use, without being amended or extended.
The RDW has informed the nine countries that recognised the Dutch approval: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Czechia.
The first official confirmation of 10%
Germany's transport ministry said on 6 October that it had agreed with Tesla that the system may exceed a limit by "a maximum of ten percent", but Tesla had not confirmed the figure. Latvia's CSDD approved the system on 26 October after Tesla lowered its speed offset, without publishing the new threshold. The RDW notice is the first time an approval authority has put a number on it.
Speeding has been the main objection to the system in Brussels. Sweden urged the EU to reject it unless drivers lose the ability to set it above the limit, and Europe's road-safety council ETSC argued in September that the offset setting does not comply with the rules. Tesla has also dropped its request for a lateral-acceleration exemption. Whether the changes are enough for an EU-wide approval is not known.
What owners should expect
Tesla will deliver the change over the air, like every software update, the RDW says. It gave no date and no software version; Europe's cars with the system were still on v14.2.2.6 at the end of October. Once the update arrives, a driver who uses a higher margin today will be limited to +10%, and the margin will return to 0% each time the car is started.
EU-wide approval is still before the EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV). The RDW says the information shared there and the talks held there are confidential, and it does not comment on them. The committee meets again in December, but no vote has been scheduled.