Tesla has, for the first time, laid out exactly where Full Self-Driving (FSD) is still waiting on regulators. Speaking at the CVPR computer-vision conference, Tesla's Vice President of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, showed a slide listing every country currently awaiting regulatory sign-off for FSD (Supervised). The slide noted that around 1.3 million vehicles globally already have access to the system.
For European owners, the list is a useful reality check: the rollout is real and moving, but most of the continent is still in the queue.
Where Europe stands today
Three European countries have already authorised FSD (Supervised): the Netherlands, Lithuania, and most recently Estonia, which signed off in late May 2026. Everywhere else on the continent is still pending.
The EU member states Tesla lists as awaiting approval are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Beyond the EU, the pending European list also includes Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Who is moving fastest
Not every pending market is moving at the same pace. A handful are clearly ahead of the pack:
| Market | Status |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | Approved |
| Lithuania | Approved |
| Estonia | Approved (late May 2026) |
| Belgium | Fast-tracking; on-road validation testing complete |
| Sweden | Expanded public-road testing authorised |
| Latvia | Rumoured to be nearing sign-off |
| Ireland | In active talks with Tesla |
The rest of the EU is expected to benefit from the bloc's shared type-approval framework: once the technical homologation file is accepted in one member state, it becomes far easier for others to follow. That is the mechanism Tesla is counting on to turn a slow country-by-country grind into a faster cascade.
What it means for owners
If your country is on the pending list, the practical takeaway is that approval is now a question of regulatory process, not whether Tesla intends to launch there. Tesla has built FSD (Supervised) for European conditions and is working through national authorities one at a time, with the Netherlands' homologation work serving as a template the company hopes the rest of the EU will accept.
For markets such as Germany, France, Italy, and Spain — the EU's largest car markets, all still pending — there is no confirmed date. But their presence on an official Tesla slide, rather than a rumour, is the clearest signal yet that they are firmly on the roadmap.
The non-EU markets, including the UK, Norway, and Switzerland, sit on separate regulatory tracks and may move independently of the EU cascade. For all of them, the message from Denver was the same: the list of countries waiting is long, but it is now a published, finite list rather than an open question.