Tesla · 26 Oct 2026

Latvia approves Tesla's supervised FSD, making it 10 EU countries. Here's what drivers there are getting

Latvia's road safety agency has accepted the Dutch approval for Tesla's supervised driver-assist system, now called Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe. As of 8:40am ET on 26 Oct 2026 (5:40am PT; 12:40 Irish time), that makes 10 EU countries. Tesla says the rollout "begins soon" but hasn't given a date.

From Alex RTesla · News & analysis

What happened

Tesla's European account posted "Now approved in Latvia" at 6:36am ET on Monday, 26 Oct (3:36am PT; 10:36 Irish time). The decision itself came from CSDD, Latvia's road traffic safety directorate, which handles vehicle approvals there. CSDD said it has recognised the provisional EU type approval that the Dutch regulator RDW gave Tesla's system on 10 April, according to CSDD's statement as carried by Apollo.lv and BB.LV. As of Monday morning ET, CSDD hadn't posted the statement on its own website.

CSDD calls the product "Tesla Assisted Driving," formerly "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)." In the US it's still sold as FSD (Supervised). It's the same idea: a Level 2 system that can steer, brake, change lanes and handle intersections along a navigation route, while the driver stays responsible.

Reuters reported that Latvia is the 10th EU country to approve it. That matches our FSD Europe tracker: the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium, Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia and Slovakia came first. With Estonia (29 May) and Lithuania (20 May) already on the list, all three Baltic states now allow it.

What Latvia attached to its yes

CSDD said it weighed changes Tesla made to the system, according to the same statement:

• A lower ceiling for speeding. Tesla reduced the maximum amount the system can drive over the speed limit.
• Speed offsets don't stick. Any over-the-limit offset the driver sets by hand resets automatically after every trip.
• Stricter driver monitoring. A cabin camera checks that the driver's eyes are on the road. Ignore the warnings repeatedly and the system locks you out for a while.

Hands can come off the wheel, CSDD said, but the driver has to watch the road and be ready to take over at any moment. Using a smartphone while driving isn't allowed. The agency was also blunt about Latvian conditions: snow, mud and road salt can interfere with the system, and it may not work well on gravel roads. In those conditions it can unexpectedly hand control back to the driver.

A six-month wait

This one took a while. A report by Latvia's Ministry of Economics, published on the government's draft legislation portal, lays out the timeline as Tesla described it to the ministry:

• 13 Apr: Tesla emailed Latvia's Transport Ministry, three days after the Dutch approval, asking it to formally start recognition.
• 20 Apr: the Transport Ministry told Tesla that CSDD had started reviewing the file.
• 12 May: the ministry asked for more information, including how the system works in winter.
• 31 Jul: Tesla had sent the extra material but still had no decision.

The Ministry of Economics then argued for recognition in its report, which other ministries reviewed in August and September. From Tesla's request to Monday's decision was 196 days, about six and a half months. Lithuania, by comparison, signed off 40 days after the Dutch approval.

What it costs, and when

Tesla hasn't given Latvian drivers a date or a price yet. As of 26 Oct, Tesla's availability page still lists only the first nine countries. In the Netherlands, the same page prices Tesla Assisted Driving at €99 a month including VAT, about $111 at the European Central Bank's 23 Oct reference rate. It's subscription-only. That's in line with the $99 a month Tesla charges for FSD (Supervised) in the US. Whether Latvia gets the same €99 price is unconfirmed.

My read

Latvia is a small market, with about 1.9 million people. Adding it takes the 10 countries to roughly 64 million, still only about 14% of the EU. An EU-wide approval needs at least 15 countries holding 65% of the population, so the big unlock is still a vote that runs through Germany and France. What's interesting here is the conditions. A Baltic regulator asked about winter, got changes on speed and driver monitoring, and then warned drivers about snow and gravel roads anyway. That's a more careful yes than most. Watch for Tesla adding Latvia to its availability list. That's when owners there can actually switch it on.

Follow every country on the FSD Europe tracker, and read our Slovakia story for how the EU-wide vote math works.

Sources: Tesla Europe on X, 26 Oct 2026; CSDD statement via Apollo.lv (26 Oct 2026) and BB.LV (26 Oct 2026); Latvian Ministry of Economics report on recognising the RDW approval (project 26-TA-2030); Reuters via Devdiscourse (26 Oct 2026); Tesla Assisted Driving support page (Netherlands); Tesla FSD (Supervised) page (US); RDW statement, 10 Apr 2026; ECB euro reference rate, 23 Oct 2026. Country dates from our FSD Europe tracker. Translations from Latvian are mine.

— Alex R