Latvia Approves Tesla FSD, Becoming 10th EU Member and 18th Worldwide

Latvia Approves Tesla FSD, Becoming 10th EU Member and 18th Worldwide

Latvia has officially authorized Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for public roads. Tesla Europe announced the news on X and said the rollout will begin soon.

With this decision, Latvia becomes the 10th EU member to independently approve FSD and the 18th country worldwide. It joins Baltic neighbors Lithuania and Estonia, which granted approval in May. In Europe, FSD is now marketed as Tesla Assisted Driving after Tesla rebranded the feature as part of its push for EU-wide approval.

Where FSD Is Approved in Europe

These EU countries have independently approved FSD for public roads so far:

• Netherlands
• Lithuania
• Estonia
• Denmark
• Belgium
• Slovenia
• Czechia
• Croatia
• Slovakia
• Latvia

Most approvals were granted via national exemptions that follow the framework first established by Dutch regulators. Latvia’s approval arrives less than two weeks after Slovakia became the ninth European country to approve FSD.

Globally, FSD has now been approved in 18 countries:

As in other European markets, the Latvian rollout is expected to begin with HW4 vehicles and include Tesla’s European build of FSD v14, tuned for local speed limits, traffic patterns, and road rules.

Progress Toward EU-Wide Approval

For bloc-wide approval, Tesla still needs a qualified majority of at least 15 countries in the upcoming EU vote, which was previously delayed to the end of the year. Germany has said it will back FSD in the vote if Tesla renamed it and limited it to not go more than 10% over the speed limit, while France and Sweden have raised concerns about the Speed Offset feature.

If Germany and all 10 approving countries vote in favor, Tesla would still need four additional votes to reach 15.

A Europe-wide green light would expand the addressable audience. According to its Q3 2026 earnings report, Tesla said FSD has reached a record 1.74 million subscribers, with more than half on monthly plans, and adoption in Europe should start materially increasing as more countries come on board.

Tesla VP Ashok Elluswamy also said unsupervised FSD could reach the first customers in select regions in Q2 2027. For now, Latvian owners with HW4 vehicles should begin receiving Tesla Assisted Driving in the coming weeks, if not days, with December’s vote determining the pace for the rest of the EU.