Tesla Films Its Mandatory Assisted Driving Video in Berlin Ahead of German Approval

Tesla has a new mandatory tutorial for Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD Supervised, and the city it’s driving through appears to be Berlin, where owners still can’t switch the system on.

Every owner has to sit through it. Tesla’s Dutch support page lists four steps to turn the system on: tap Controls, then Assisted Driving, then Tesla Assisted Driving, accept the user agreement, watch the mandatory instruction video and pass a Tesla Assisted Driving quiz.

Tesla has posted a 1:49 cut of the video on that page. The version owners watch in the car appears to be longer than the web cut.

The web cut opens with a hands-free drive through wide city boulevards, with modern office towers and Soviet-era blocks along the road, before moving onto a multi-lane highway. The streets, the buses and the architecture all point to Berlin. Tesla hasn’t said where it was filmed.

Then it gets to the rules. On-screen captions tell the driver that Tesla Assisted Driving “requires active driver supervision and does not make the vehicle autonomous,” and that “the driver is always responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle.”

The video walks through the touchscreen menu where the system is switched on, then shows how to tell when it’s ready and when it’s driving. A grey steering wheel icon means it’s available. Press the right scroll wheel and the icon turns blue, “Assisted Driving” appears above the speed, and a blue line marks the car’s path, all against an 80 km/h limit sign.

Taking back control gets the same treatment, with the brake pedal, the stalk and the steering wheel each shown as ways out. The final shot is two hands on the wheel.

Speed is where Germany comes in. Tesla’s page says drivers can set a fixed percentage offset above the detected limit, or let the car adjust to what it sees around it. The web cut doesn’t show the offset setting. In the longer in-car version, it reportedly appears capped at 10 percent, which Tesla hasn’t confirmed. That matches the limit Germany’s Transport Ministry said it agreed on with Tesla on October 6.

The rest of the page fills in the fine print. The system can be engaged below 140 km/h or the local limit, whichever is lower. Three or five strikeouts for inattention, depending on the car, suspend it for about a week.

The price is now spelled out, too: €99 a month including VAT, and only as a subscription. “Tesla Assisted Driving is not available for one-time purchase,” the page says, and subscriptions aren’t refunded.

Germany still isn’t on Tesla’s list. The system is available in eight countries: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Croatia. Activation is blocked everywhere else, and if you’re driving toward a border into a country without approval, the car warns you and then switches the system off.

Berlin’s government has said it will push for EU-wide approval, but there’s no date for that vote. Tesla also hasn’t confirmed the filming location or said whether the 10 percent cap will reach other countries.

Shooting the video every new user has to watch on streets where nobody can use the system yet is a pretty loud hint. German owners will just have to watch it on Tesla’s website for now.