Tesla has begun internally testing a fully capable version of its Full Self-Driving software with employees in China, as the company waits for regulators to approve the latest version of its advanced assisted driving technology in the country.
The China-based Tesla owner and X user ‘zhongwen2005’, wrote on Wednesday that a ‘version of FSD with full functionality’ — identified as v14.3.2 — has been made available to employees in China, who were required to sign “massive” non-disclosure and indemnity agreements.
The account provided no supporting evidence while reaffirming in a separate post the company’s decision.
“Tesla has made a version of FSD with full functionality available to its employees in China,” the user wrote on Wednesday. “V14.3.2. This information is for reference only.”
According to the user, the software is currently undergoing internal testing.
“Tesla China has signed massive non-disclosure and indemnity agreements with its employees,” he later added in a separate post.
The reported V14.3.2 build would represent a significant step forward from the software currently running in China, which Musk referred to before as only “partial.”
FSD in China
Tesla first began testing FSD on public roads in China in early 2025, after initially targeting a first-quarter launch on its AI roadmap published in September 2024.
The rollout, however, has been constrained by strict regulatory oversight.
In April 2025, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) banned the use of terms like “autonomous driving” and “full self-driving,” instructing automakers to “avoid exaggeration or false advertising.”
Tesla subsequently rebranded the software to “Intelligent Assisted Driving” (“智能辅助驾驶”) in the Chinese market, removing all explicit references to FSD from the user interface.
In September 2025, The Beijing News reported that seven Tesla owners filed lawsuits against the company over FSD capabilities — the first known cases of their kind in the country.
The owners claimed that the vehicles they purchased with the Full Self-Driving software could not deliver the advertised features due to hardware limitations, accusing the company of consumer fraud and seeking full refunds plus triple compensation.
The plaintiffs said FSD only supported automatic lane changes on highways, while other promised features — such as summoning the vehicle in open parking lots — never worked.
Musk’s Timelines
Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said at Tesla‘s Annual Shareholder Meeting in November 2025 that he expected full approval “hopefully” by the first quarter of 2026.
He reiterated that timeline at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026. However, Chinese state media reported shortly after that the approval was “not true.”
As of early 2026, Tesla still holds only partial authorization to test the system on Chinese public roads.
VP of China Grace Tao has said preparations are underway but has offered no firm timeline.
In February, the company established a local AI training center to develop FSD using Chinese road data — a critical step, as the country’s data export laws had previously forced Tesla to train the model on publicly available video rather than real-world driving data collected locally.
Q3 Rollout
X user ‘zhongwen2005’ added a reply noting that owners must “wait until the third quarter” for a possible public rollout.
The third-quarter timeline mentioned by the user aligns with Musk’s most recent public comments.
During Tesla‘s latest earnings call in April, the CEO said he expects the company to receive full FSD approval in China by the third quarter of 2026.
The delay comes as Chinese competitors — including XPeng, Baidu, and others — are rapidly scaling their own advanced driver-assistance and autonomous driving systems, many of which are offered to buyers at no additional cost.
Global FSD Rollout
The reported China-focused build comes as Tesla continues to expand FSD across multiple markets.
In the United States, FSD (Supervised) has now surpassed 10 billion miles of real-world driving data.
The company discontinued the upfront purchase option in North America in February 2026, shifting exclusively to a $99-per-month subscription model.
Tesla has also launched its unsupervised Robotaxi service in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
In Europe, the Netherlands became the first country to approve FSD (Supervised) on April 10, with the Dutch vehicle authority RDW issuing formal type approval.
Tesla began pushing software update 2026.3.6 to customer vehicles within 24 hours.
Dutch owners have since logged over 10 million kilometres on the software in less than a month.
The RDW presented Tesla’s FSD approval to the European Commission’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) at its 117th meeting on Tuesday.
However, no vote on the matter was held, as the session served mostly so that other State Members could raise questions about the software.
A decision could be taken in the upcoming meetings of the committee, scheduled for late June and October.
FSD (Supervised) is currently available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and the Netherlands.
