EVwire brief: Tesla Taiwan has formally submitted its FSD (Supervised) application to the island's Vehicle Safety Certification Center (VSC), moving the system into Taiwan's official review process.
The filing flips FSD's status in Taiwan from "not yet registered" to formally under review. As of a June 10 discussion involving the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the safety center, Tesla’s FSD application was still in progress and not yet officially registered.
Tesla stressed that FSD (Supervised) still requires active driver supervision and cannot drive the car by itself, keeping the driver responsible throughout. That status is what lets the review proceed now: because the feature stays within SAE Level 2, Taiwan does not need to pass Level 3 or higher autonomy laws first, and regulators can handle it under the existing "New Technology Driving System" mechanism, separate from Robotaxi or Level 4 operation.
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Submission is the start, not the finish. Drawing on earlier meetings between the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Vehicle Safety Center, the path from here runs roughly like this:
The VSC confirms the application is complete.
Within two to four weeks, a technical committee reviews the documents and the road-test plan.
If that initial review passes, the VSC forwards it to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, whose approval usually takes about two weeks.
Road testing begins only after that approval.
Once testing wraps, Tesla submits the data and results for another review by the Technical Committee.
Looking at this process, FSD will not switch on for Taiwanese owners the moment the paperwork lands. The real timeline depends on the document review, the testing plan, the road-test results, and the Ministry's sign-off. Once that is done, however, Tesla owners in Taiwan with compatible vehicles would be able to experience FSD Supervised.
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Context:
Alongside the filing, Tesla confirmed it is ending one-time FSD purchases in Taiwan. Sales of the one-time option stop at 23:59 on June 30, and from July 1, the option disappears from the Tesla Taiwan website and app, in line with the company's global shift to subscription-based FSD Supervised.
Owners who already hold FSD keep their existing lifetime rights. Anyone who still wants the one-time option has until the end of June 30 to add it, through the Tesla app for an existing car or on the order page for a vehicle not yet delivered.
Tesla Taiwan is offering free FSD transfer for HW3.0 owners who purchase a new car
Tesla Taiwan is also offering a free FSD transfer for HW3.0 owners. Customers whose current car has FSD and who order a new vehicle by September 30 can move that FSD across at no cost, as long as the original car had FSD before June 30. Enhanced Autopilot does not qualify, so an EAP owner has to upgrade to FSD by June 30 to be eligible.
Tesla says FSD (Supervised) is now available or approved in 12 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, and Belgium, with road testing underway in Japanese cities including Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka.
Source: Electrify (Taiwan), Ming on X
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