Tesla’s supervised self-driving system is spreading through Europe faster than many expected, with Lithuania becoming the second EU country to allow Tesla FSD after the Netherlands. The rollout is a small but telling win for Tesla: instead of fighting every regulator from scratch, it is turning one country’s approval into a shortcut for the next.
On May 20, Tesla said FSD Supervised is now arriving in Lithuania over the air. The country’s Transport Safety Administration accepted the Dutch certification granted to Tesla by RDW in April, which means Lithuanian officials did not repeat the whole test process themselves. That mutual-recognition setup is the real story here, because it turns a slow regulatory grind into something that can move almost like software.
How Tesla FSD Supervised is being approved in Europe
The system remains Level 2 driver assistance, not autonomous driving, so the human still has to pay attention and take over when needed. It can steer, change lanes, respond to traffic lights, and park, which is a lot of capability for a subscription feature that still carries the usual legal asterisk.
- Price: €99 per month
- Price for Enhanced Autopilot owners: €49 per month
- Level: 2 driver assistance
Tesla says European drivers have already logged over 15 million kilometers with FSD Supervised active since the Netherlands launch in April. That kind of mileage gives regulators something they can point to besides promises, and it also helps Tesla argue that the Dutch approval is more than a one-off exception.
Dutch testing is now Tesla’s European template
The Dutch RDW spent more than 18 months testing FSD before approving it under UN Regulation 171. That matters because other EU countries can now lean on that work instead of duplicating it, and Tesla gets to benefit from a rare thing in Europe: regulatory momentum.
Reuters has reported that Greece’s transport ministry is preparing a bill to authorize the system, and Belgium is expected to take a similar route. The bloc-wide rollout Tesla wants by summer 2026 still looks ambitious, especially with an EU vote not scheduled until July or October at the earliest, but the country-by-country pace is clearly picking up. In other words, Tesla’s European self-driving push is less a grand launch than a chain reaction.
Tesla’s summer 2026 target
The open question is whether Tesla can keep turning national approvals into a continental rollout before the calendar slips further. If more governments accept the Dutch model, the company may get there faster than the paperwork suggests. If not, Tesla’s ”soon” could become the European version of ”later.”