Latvia Becomes the Tenth EU Country to Approve Tesla Assisted Driving After Tesla Lowered Its Speed Offset

Latvia has approved Tesla Assisted Driving, the system Tesla sold in Europe until this month as FSD (Supervised). On 26 October 2026 the Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD), the state company that acts as Latvia's vehicle approval authority, said it had recognised the provisional EU type approval that the Dutch authority RDW issued in April. Tesla's European account on X confirmed it at 10:36 UTC: "Now approved in Latvia. Rollout begins soon."

Latvia is the tenth EU country to allow the system, ten days after Slovakia became the ninth. It is the last of the three Baltic states: Lithuania and Estonia recognised the Dutch approval in May.

Why it took six months

Latvia was the Baltic holdout. Tesla asked the transport ministry and CSDD to recognise the RDW decision on 13 April, according to an Economics Ministry report summarised by Not an FSD Tracker. In May, CSDD said its own tests on Latvian roads had found the system failing to obey traffic lights, choosing the wrong lane and not adapting to changes in the speed limit, Uzlādēts reported. In late August the Economics Ministry proposed giving CSDD ten working days to recognise the approval. The Transport and Justice ministries declined to back that, arguing that the decision was for CSDD alone.

CSDD now says it decided after reviewing the RDW documentation, working with the RDW and other member states' approval authorities, and assessing changes Tesla made: a lower maximum threshold for exceeding the speed limit, an automatic reset of any manually set speed offset after every trip, and stronger driver monitoring. It did not publish the new threshold. Germany's transport ministry said on 6 October that it had agreed a cap of 10% over the limit with Tesla, a figure Tesla has not confirmed.

What CSDD tells drivers

CSDD classes the software as a Level 2 driver-assistance system. It can follow the speed limit, brake, steer, change lanes and cross junctions along a navigation route. Hands may leave the wheel, but a camera checks that the driver is watching the road, and repeatedly ignored warnings make the system temporarily unavailable. Smartphone use is not allowed, and the driver remains fully responsible for any offence or crash.

The directorate added a warning specific to Latvia: snow, mud and road salt can disrupt the system, it may work poorly on gravel roads, and in those conditions it may unexpectedly hand control back to the driver. "The better the system works, the easier it is to lose vigilance," CSDD said.

Where Europe stands

Each recognition covers only that country's roads. An EU-wide authorisation needs a vote of the member states' technical committee, which is not expected before December. Norway and Ireland have said they will wait for it.

When Latvian owners get it

Tesla has given no date and no Latvian price. CSDD says the system will be available only on the Tesla models listed in the RDW approval and fitted with the appropriate software. In Slovakia it began reaching cars four days after recognition, at €99 a month. In Czechia the first wave was limited to cars with the Hardware 4 computer. Tesla has sold cars directly in Latvia only since July.