According to Sawyer Merritt on X, Spain’s DGT confirmed that Tesla has 30 vehicles testing FSD (Supervised) on Spanish roads with nearly 50,000 miles driven since November 2025 and 0 reported incidents to date, citing an official DGT response shared by BarcelonaGeekYT. According to the DGT statement, these trials operate under Spain’s ES-AV Framework Programme, which establishes a reinforced regime for evaluating automated vehicle safety and technology. As reported by the DGT, systems like FSD may be legally used on Spanish roads only with valid type approval in Spain or the EU and in compliance with UN Regulation No. 171 DCAS, with the driver remaining responsible at all times. According to the DGT, the recent RDW decision in the Netherlands could open new opportunities in the EU for automated mobility, signaling potential business expansion pathways for Tesla’s supervised autonomy features across European markets.

According to Sawyer Merritt, citing Reuters, the Dutch vehicle authority RDW has notified the European Commission of its plan to seek EU approval for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features by 2026, initiating a formal pathway to assess automated driving functions under EU type-approval frameworks. As reported by Reuters, RDW’s move could centralize technical evaluation for over-the-air software, computer vision stacks, and neural network–based driving policies used by Tesla, aligning with UNECE regulations and EU General Safety Regulation timelines. According to Reuters, potential EU-level approval would expand Tesla’s commercial rollout of supervised autonomy across member states, while imposing transparent validation for corner-case performance, data logging, and human-machine interface safeguards. For AI vendors and Tier 1 suppliers, this signals growing demand for ISO 26262/21448-compliant perception models, scenario simulation, and safety case tooling. As reported by Reuters, regulatory scrutiny on model behavior, dataset provenance, and continuous learning updates could create opportunities for European test platforms, synthetic data providers, and edge AI compute optimization targeting FSD-class workloads.

According to Sawyer Merritt on X, the Dutch vehicle authority RDW has notified the European Commission of its plan to seek EU-wide approval for Tesla’s FSD (Supervised), with next steps requiring a committee majority vote by member states. According to RDW’s general manager of type approvals, Bernd van Nieuwenhoven, EU-level clearance would set a regulatory template many countries follow, potentially accelerating supervised Level 2+ deployment and over-the-air feature rollouts across Europe. As reported by Sawyer Merritt, a positive vote could unlock new subscription revenues for Tesla, expand ADAS data collection under EU safety and data regimes, and pressure rivals to certify comparable supervised autonomy stacks under UNECE frameworks.

According to Sawyer Merritt on X, Tesla said the Netherlands RDW communicated that FSD (Supervised) could be approved on April 10, paving a path for broader EU approvals, and the jump from legacy Autopilot to FSD V14 for AI4 Teslas would be significant. As reported by Sawyer Merritt citing Tesla, the company conducted 13,000+ customer ride-alongs, 4,500+ track test scenarios, compiled thousands of pages for 400+ compliance requirements, and ran dozens of safety studies to support certification. According to Sawyer Merritt, if RDW greenlights FSD (Supervised), early European deployment could accelerate data collection for long-tail edge cases, enabling faster iteration of Tesla’s end-to-end neural network driving stack and potential revenue uplift from software subscriptions. As reported by Sawyer Merritt, the approval timeline and scope remain contingent on RDW’s final decision and subsequent country-level clearances across Europe.