Tesla showed on Friday footage from the tests of the supervised full self-driving (FSD) in Australia. The system expanded to China earlier this year and is expected to reach Europe later this year pending regulatory approvals.
Australia became the first right-hand drive market to see the company’s assisted driving system.
The video showed an engineering test drive in a prototype vehicle, disclaiming that the full self-driving is a supervised “hands-on feature that requires driver control of the vehicle and attention on the road at all times.”
Also on Friday, another testing video was shared showing FSD’s debut in France. On X, Tesla said that “FSD Supervised can handle Arc de Triomphe no problem. If there is a bigger roundabout in France, please let us know in the comments.”
Tesla’s supervised FSD is available in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico and China, allowing its customers to drive “hands-off, eyes on” the road. It is available in the U.S. as a $99 monthly subscription or a single-payment of $8,000.
The system rolled out in China earlier this year, although it suffered a temporary halt earlier this year due to pending regulatory approval.
In April, the U.S. brand changed FSD’s denomination to ‘intelligent assisted driving,’ complying with new rules from the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) that banned terms like ‘autonomous driving’ or ‘full self-driving.
Last month, the company teased FSD’s European rollout on X, with an engineering test drive in Amsterdam, highlighting that it was “pending regulatory approval.”
A new amendment on regulation from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will unlock “System-Initiated Maneuvers” (SIM) in the old continent by September.
However, the new rules only apply to highways that are physically separated from vehicles — which means that several features of Tesla‘s FSD will not be available to European customers yet.
In the latest quarterly earnings call last month, Elon Musk once agan reaffirmed that unsupervised full self-driving will be available next month in Austin, Texas.
It will be used in a ride-hailing service and it will start being provided with “10 to 20” Model Ys “on day one,” although it is intended to be provided with its Cybercab.
Rivian is also developing an assisted driving software, which was extended as a free trial to its customers “until late 2025.”
The Autonomy Platform is developed in-house and covers 130,000 miles of highways in North America — with CEO RJ Scaringe stating that the company plans to expand to select cities and to be “eyes-off” later this year.
