Tesla’s driver-assistance system in Europe can no longer be set to drive 50% over the speed limit. The Netherlands’ RDW, which approved the system in April, confirmed today that it signed off on an update capping the speed margin at 10% and officially renaming “FSD Supervised” to Tesla Assisted Driving.
📌 The Core Development
The changes land weeks before EU member states could vote on approving the system across the bloc, and they match the conditions Germany set last month.
The RDW’s notice is the clearest official confirmation of how the system was configured when the Dutch regulator approved FSD Supervised on April 10 . The “speed margin,” which lets the system deviate from the detected limit for “safety and traffic flow,” could go up to +50%. On a 100 km/h highway, that’s 150 km/h. In a 30 km/h city zone, it’s 45 km/h.
🔍 Background & Sector Context
Now the margin tops out at +10%. It also resets to 0% every time the car starts, and the RDW says other speed-related functions are now disabled by default. It didn’t say which ones.
The new name shows up on the in-car display, in the owner’s manual, and in other driver information on HW4 vehicles. Tesla pushes all of it over the air.
📊 Industry & Real-World Impact
The RDW describes the update as “several minor changes” that Tesla asked it to assess. The regulator says it checked the implementation, found no adverse or unintended effects, and folded the changes into the existing type approval without amending or extending it. It also stresses that the rename doesn’t change what the system does. It’s still driver assistance, and the driver is still responsible.
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🔮 Strategic Outlook & What Lies Ahead
The RDW notified the nine member states that recognize its approval: Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. That’s 10 countries counting the Netherlands, up from eight at the start of October.
The EU-wide decision still sits with the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV). The RDW says those talks are confidential and won’t comment on them. As we reported, the EU pushed the vote to December at the earliest , and passing it takes a qualified majority: 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of the EU population.
