Finland has approved Tesla Assisted Driving, the system Tesla sold in Europe until October as FSD (Supervised). On 10 November 2026 the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, Traficom, recognised the provisional type approval issued by the Dutch authority RDW. As a result, Traficom said on 11 November, Tesla "can immediately start offering the system to its customers in Finland".
Finland is the 11th EU country to allow the system, 15 days after Latvia became the tenth, and the second Nordic country after Denmark. In June, Traficom said it might move after the summer if Tesla answered its questions on driver takeover, overtaking in poor visibility and the speed offset. At the time, it put the number of eligible cars, Teslas with the latest-generation hardware, at about 6,500.
Why Finland did not wait for Brussels
Traficom says Finland is moving "slightly faster than the EU-level process" for two reasons: the changes Tesla has now made to the system, and the chance for Finnish owners to get to know it "before the most challenging winter conditions arrive". It expects the EU-wide decision "during the coming winter", because Tesla has been willing to make the changes that member states asked for.
What Tesla changed
| Change | What Traficom says |
|---|---|
| Name | FSD (Supervised) is now Tesla Assisted Driving, also in Finnish- and Swedish-language marketing and manuals |
| Speed margin | Drivers can no longer have the system "continuously maintain an unnecessarily high speed above the speed limit (50 per cent)" |
| Speed settings | Any setting that allows speeding goes back to the speed limit whenever the car is restarted |
| Driver information | What the car shows about its speed settings has been expanded and clarified |
Traficom does not give the new maximum. The RDW approved a cut from +50% to +10% on 3 November. Traficom expects further changes before the EU approval that will not significantly affect how the system is used but will help drivers stay alert.
Snow on the cameras
"The system's design and approval assessment have taken winter conditions into account, but its operation may be subject to various limitations if the cameras become covered in snow, slush or other dirt, or if traffic conditions become more challenging than usual," said Jukka Juhola, a senior specialist at Traficom.
The agency's guidance is blunt. The driver remains fully responsible, and "it is always the driver who receives the fine for speeding." It tells owners to keep their hands on the wheel when unsure whether the car can cope, for example with a puddle of unknown depth, ice, thick snow or slush, or strong crosswinds.
What Finnish owners need to know
- No inspection, as a rule. Switching the system on does not require a modification inspection unless the car has been modified in ways that affect it.
- No date or price yet. Tesla has not said when the system reaches Finnish cars. In Slovakia it arrived four days after recognition, at €99 a month.
- The EU vote is separate. The recognition does not bind Finland's vote in the EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV). An EU-wide approval needs a successful vote there and takes about three weeks to apply after it. Whether the committee votes in December is still not certain.
Finland's neighbours are taking a different route. Norway will wait for the EU decision, and Sweden urged the EU in June to reject the system unless its speeding behaviour was removed.