EVwire brief: Tesla has officially rebranded FSD (Supervised) in Europe, with the system now called Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD) across the company's European websites.
The new name is already live on Tesla's support and order pages in markets where FSD Supervised has been rolled out, such as Estonia, where TAD is listed as a €99 (about $115) monthly subscription that starts after a one-month trial. Tesla describes TAD on the order page as a system that lets the car "drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention."
Here's how TAD appears on Tesla's Estonian Model Y order page:
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Tesla's new TAD support page lists features including city and highway driving with lane changes, turns, and navigation through intersections and roundabouts, along with highway merges and exits, Advanced Smart Summon, and automatic parallel and perpendicular parking. Drivers can also choose how the system handles speed, either manually, as a set offset from the detected speed limit, or through a contextual maximum speed.
In European markets that have yet to approve FSD (Supervised), Tesla is offering Tesla Assisted Driving Basics instead, which takes the place of Enhanced Autopilot. In Norway, TAD Basics is listed as a 1,090 kr (about $105) monthly subscription, with features including Autosteer, Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, Lane Change, Navigate with Autosteer, Dumb Summon, Enhanced Smart Summon, Autopark, and Traffic Light and Stop Sign Recognition.
Here's how TAD Basics appears on Tesla's Norwegian Model Y order page:
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Context:
The rename came out of Tesla's talks with Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV) in September. Following those discussions, Federal Transport Minister Steffen Bilger said he would advocate for the system's timely approval across Europe, and Germany’s transport ministry said the two sides agreed the system may exceed the posted speed limit by up to 10%.
TAD is sold as a subscription only and is available in the eight European countries that have approved the system so far: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Czechia and Croatia. Tesla's support page notes that the system requires active driver supervision and does not make the vehicle autonomous.
Source: Tesla TAD support page, Tesla UK Autopilot and TAD Basic support page, Tesla Estonia and Norway Model Y order pages
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