Dutch regulator approves Tesla's FSD rename and 10 per cent speed cap
FSD (Supervised) becomes Tesla Assisted Driving in 10 EU countries, with a speed margin of no more than 10 per cent.
S5A-0043 / Wikimedia The Netherlands' vehicle regulator, the RDW, has approved changes Tesla asked for to FSD (Supervised) in Europe. The system gets a new name, Tesla Assisted Driving, and a much lower speed margin.
The margin is how far a driver lets the system go over the speed limit when needed "for safety and traffic flow". It could be set as high as 50 per cent. Now the cap is 10 per cent.
On a 100 km/h road, that takes the highest setting from 150 km/h to 110 km/h. The margin will also go back to 0 per cent each time the car starts, and other speed-related functions will be off by default.
A new name, same system
The new name will appear on the car's screen, in the manual and in other information for the driver, on cars with hardware 4 (HW4) or later. Tesla will send the changes over the air.
The regulator says the name change does not change how the system works, and the driver is still responsible for driving.
Same approval
The RDW first approved FSD (Supervised) on 10 April, for use in the Netherlands only. EU-wide use needs a vote of member states.
It says it found no adverse effects from the changes, which fit inside that approval, so the approval does not need to be amended.
The RDW has told the nine countries that accepted its approval: Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The EU-wide decision is still with the bloc's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles.
Higher speeds in Australia and NZ
Australian and New Zealand cars went the other way in October. Update 2026.38.5.5 added a Mad Max speed profile that, according to Tesla's release notes, "comes with higher speeds than HURRY".
Rod Bland is the publisher and editor of Volts & Bots. He lives in Sydney and drives a Model Y L bought in Australia in 2026, with HW4 and FSD (Supervised). More about Rod Bland.