Turo, the peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, will let travellers in the United States search for and book Teslas with FSD (Supervised) switched on from 28 October 2026. Turo announced it on 26 October under the headline "Turo and Tesla Debut Industry-First Self-Driving Rental Experience", calling it the first verified FSD rental service. Tesla has not commented separately.
How it works
Hosts who rent out their cars link their Tesla account to Turo. Turo then checks whether FSD (Supervised) is active through a direct integration with Tesla's API and shows the result on the listing; a screenshot published by TechCrunch shows listings labelled "Self-Driving". Eligible US hosts also get a free one-month FSD trial.
Renters are shown warning text saying they must supervise the system and be ready to take over at any moment, and they can watch a tutorial made by Tesla. Turo says thousands of FSD-enabled Teslas are already listed on the platform. The Model 3 and Model Y are its third and fourth most-rented models this year.
Turo backs the move with its own research: 55% of Americans say they are interested in driverless technology for travel, and 71% of Gen Z.
Why Tesla wants this
The tie-up comes days after Tesla's third-quarter results, in which it reported 1.74 million active FSD subscriptions, counting upfront purchases and monthly plans but excluding free trials. Tesla also said more than 75% of new North American deliveries now include FSD. On the earnings call, finance chief Vaibhav Taneja said customers now come in asking for an FSD drive rather than for a particular model, TechCrunch reports.
A rental is a long test drive: several days of real use, in a car the renter did not have to buy. The free trials for hosts do not count towards the subscription milestones in Elon Musk's pay award, but every host or renter who later pays does.
What it means for Europe
Nothing yet. The launch covers the United States only. Turo also operates in Canada, the UK, France and Australia, but in Europe the system, now sold as Tesla Assisted Driving, is approved only country by country. Ten EU countries allow it, most recently Latvia today. France is not one of them, and the UK has not approved it either.
The closest European equivalent so far is in Prague, where Liftago sells rides in Teslas running the system with a professional driver at the wheel. A rental with the system switched on would put a member of the public behind the wheel instead, which is what Turo's US launch is about to test.