EVwire brief: Tesla released its initial safety stats for FSD Supervised in the Netherlands. As per Tesla’s data, FSD Supervised recorded just three collisions across 7.0 million km (4.35 million miles) of non-highway driving from April 10 to June 5, 2026.
This suggests that the system’s performance is 1.6x safer than manual driving on the same roads (per Tesla data), which is the most demanding setting in its dataset.
At the same time, zero collisions were recorded over 16.6 million km (10.31 million miles) on highways, making FSD Supervised 3.4x safer than manual driving on highways.
Tesla Europe shared the update on X:
Non-highway covers city and local roads, the streets where intersections, cyclists, and pedestrians make driving hardest. On those roads, Tesla's manual-driving baseline was 109 collisions across 152.9 million km (95.0 million miles), against the three logged on FSD Supervised.
The non-highway number is the one worth sitting with. City driving is the harder problem for any automated system, and a 1.6x edge there is a more grounded read on where FSD Supervised stands than the 3.5x banner. FSD Supervised usage in the Netherlands has climbed quickly since launch, so the sample keeps growing.
FSD Supervised usage in the Netherlands has climbed quickly since the service’s launch in April
Tesla also pointed to four driving-behavior measures from the same fleet data:
14.9x fewer automatic emergency braking events,
8.8x less harsh acceleration,
7.3x less harsh braking, and
8.0x fewer hard swerves compared to its manually driven fleet.
Those track how smoothly the car drives rather than collision outcomes, but they point to the same direction.
Context:
The Netherlands was the first European market to approve FSD Supervised (Lithuania and Estonia have followed since), and the fleet has piled up kilometers quickly since the RDW signed off.
After the Netherlands, FSD Supervised has since been released to Lithuania and Estonia
Putting three collisions per 7.0 million km against the national picture is less straightforward than it looks. The Netherlands has one of the lowest road-fatality rates in the world, with 675 road deaths recorded in 2024, but the per-kilometer figures the country publishes track deaths and serious injuries.
Collisions, especially minor ones like those recorded by Tesla’s Robotaxi network in the United States, tend to be unreported.
Tesla counts collisions from vehicle telemetry, flagging FSD as engaged if it was active within five seconds of impact, and splits events into major (airbag deployment) and minor (a speed change of at least 8 km/h, or 5 mph). That is a different basis from the Netherlands’ police-registered crash statistics, which is why the cleanest comparison stays inside Tesla's own data.
Source: Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa on X, Statistics Netherlands
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