Tesla has begun asking owners across Europe to contact Dutch vehicle regulators and voice their support for Full Self-Driving (Supervised), as the company pushes for regulatory approval of the system in the EU.
The move comes after CEO Elon Musk said earlier this month at Tesla’s 2025 annual shareholder meeting that the first regulatory approval for FSD (Supervised) in Europe is expected in early 2026. FSD is currently available in six countries globally, and Tesla recently teased an upcoming rollout in South Korea.
In a new post on X, Tesla Europe laid out the company’s FSD progress in the EU so far and urged customers to help accelerate the approval process. “Tesla has been working hard toward shipping Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe for over 12 months now. We have given FSD demos to regulators of almost every EU country. We have requested early access, pilot release programs or exemptions where possible,” the company wrote.
Tesla added that it has “developed & shared detailed safety evidence for FSD, now public in our latest Safety Report. And we have driven over 1 million kilometers safely on EU roads across 17 different countries (internal testing).”
According to Tesla, its primary strategy is working with the Dutch Type Approval Authority (RDW) to secure an exemption that would allow FSD to operate under EU rules. Some of the current regulations, the company says, are “outdated and rules-based, which makes FSD illegal in its current form.”
Changing FSD to comply with these rules “would make it unsafe and unusable in many cases,” Tesla said, adding that while it has made the system “maximally compliant where it is logical and reasonable, we won’t sacrifice the safety of a proven system or materially deteriorate customer usability.”
Tesla Europe says the RDW has now “committed to granting Netherlands National approval in February 2026,” after which other EU countries can immediately recognize the exemption. From there, the company plans to bring the feature to a TCMV vote for EU-wide approval.
The push comes at a time when Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is advancing rapidly. The company is currently rolling out FSD 14, with version 14.2 reaching testers this week and Musk hyping up the upcoming 14.3 update as the “last big piece” of the puzzle.
Tesla’s ask of customers reflects a new stage in the company’s global FSD expansion — and signals that the EU rollout, long one of the most complex regulatory hurdles, may finally be on the horizon.
