EVwire brief: Finland may approve Tesla's FSD Supervised ahead of the EU-wide decision expected in October, the Finnish transport regulator Traficom said on Tuesday.
Traficom is still working through a few specifics first: how quickly drivers can retake control, overtaking in low-visibility conditions on Finnish roads, and the speed-offset feature that Sweden and Norway have raised concerns over.
“An EU-wide solution can be expected in October 2026. However, Traficom is prepared to proceed on a faster schedule after the summer if the necessary additional information has been obtained on the key areas of assessment.”
About 6,500 Teslas in Finland are equipped with FSD
The EU-wide committee vote is still expected in October, with the next member-state discussion set for June 30.
Finland was among the countries Tesla approached after the Dutch approval, asking whether they would follow suit, Reuters reported in May. Around 6,500 cars in Finland are equipped with FSD, which translates to about 0.24% of the country's 2.7 million passenger vehicles.
FSD Supervised still requires a fully attentive driver, so Finland does not count it as autonomous. Traficom said genuinely self-driving cars could appear on Finnish roads as early as 2028.
The rollout of FSD Supervised has been accelerating in Europe
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FSD Supervised's rollout has been accelerating lately, particularly in Europe. Following the RDW's initial approval of the system in the Netherlands, FSD Supervised has been released in several other countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, and Belgium.
Not every Nordic regulator is sold. Sweden has signaled it may oppose the system in Europe over the speed-offset feature, which lets the car travel a set margin above the limit. Finland landing on the positive side, if it firms up, would place it on the faster lane of a split continent.
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