Tesla · FSD in Europe · 14 Nov 2026
A Helsinki taxi firm bought 100 Model Ys to run on Tesla Assisted Driving, and says it will publish every time a driver steps in
Three days after Finland cleared Tesla's supervised driving system, one of the country's biggest taxi companies says it is ready to put it to work. Menevä's new Robo Menevä service will run 100 Tesla Model Ys on Tesla Assisted Driving in the Helsinki area, with a trained "host" in the front seat who is still legally the driver. As of 14 Nov 2026 no paying rides had started. The part worth watching is a public map that Menevä says will log every time a host has to take over.
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What Menevä announced
Finland's transport agency, Traficom, approved Tesla Assisted Driving on 11 Nov 2026. That's the European name for the system Americans know as FSD (Supervised), and Finland became the 11th EU country to allow it (my write-up). Menevä's Robo Menevä page now says "The cars are ready, and we're launching the service now." The page lists:
- 100 Tesla Model Ys for the first phase.
- Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen first, with other Finnish cities "later."
- A host in every car who, during the pilot, "is legally responsible for the ride and takes the wheel if needed."
- Booking through the regular Menevä app "as soon as the service starts." No start date is given, and no fare is listed.
The company's Finnish-language notice, updated 12 Nov 2026, says the first cars have already arrived. It also says that in Finland the system is not classed as a self-driving car.
Chief executive Tuomo Halminen told the Finnish business outlet Yrittäjät that Menevä bought the cars ahead of the decision. "Now we are trying to get them to work," he said. He put the fleet at more than 1,000 cars and about 1,500 drivers, so the Tesla batch is about a tenth of the fleet.
This isn't a robotaxi, and Menevä says so
In the US, Tesla's own Robotaxi service now runs around the clock in eight cities, from Austin to Tampa. Menevä is a customer buying cars and using a driver-assist feature any Finnish owner can switch on. A person with a taxi licence sits up front, watches the road and takes the fines. Yrittäjät's own report says that "in the true sense of the word, these are not robo-taxis yet."
The job changes, though. Menevä now calls its drivers hosts. They greet riders, open doors, and are told to let "the back seat decide" whether there's small talk. The hiring terms are a base wage of €10 an hour plus 6% of the sales from each shift, in an employment relationship, according to the page. Yrittäjät reports that most of Menevä's drivers today are subcontractors. The page doesn't say how that compares with what Menevä pays its regular drivers.
| Tesla Robotaxi (US) | Robo Menevä (Helsinki) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Tesla | Menevä, a taxi company buying Teslas |
| Status | Running 24/7 in 8 cities | Announced, rides not started |
| Legal status in Finland | n/a | Driver assistance; the host is the responsible driver |
| Cars | Model Y | 100 Model Y |
| Safety data | City and fleet totals in Tesla's report | Pledged map of each takeover |
US column from Tesla's Robotaxi posts and its safety report; Helsinki column from Menevä's pages, 14 Nov 2026.
The map is the interesting part
Menevä says it will "publish openly" its ride data, and the page already has the map: "The map shows every situation where a host had to step in," with filters for deviations, near misses and collisions and a GeoJSON file to download. Tesla's Robotaxi safety report from October gives totals, such as 3.1 million miles with zero injuries, broken down by city. It doesn't give a location for each event.
Menevä's map is a promise until rides start. If it fills in the way the page describes, riders will be able to see where Tesla's software needed a human on Finnish roads, including in snow and slush. Traficom has already warned that cameras covered in snow or dirt can limit the system. Halminen told Yrittäjät he has tried assisted driving himself: "The first 30 seconds are exciting to see how it will go, but you quickly come to understand that the car observes more and acts more predictably than a human." He also said winter tests "seemed to work well," with the caveat that some weather is hard even for a human driver.
What's still open
- A start date, a fare, and whether Robo Menevä costs the same as a normal Menevä ride.
- What "10,000 cars in Finland by 2031" means. The number is on Menevä's page with no explanation of whose cars they would be. I'm treating it as a target.
- When the pilot ends and what it would take to remove the host. Finland has approved the system only as driver assistance.
Winter is coming to Helsinki, and a taxi firm has volunteered to put its takeovers on a map. I'll update this page when the first rides happen and the map gets its first entries. Would you ride in the back of one, knowing the host up front can take over at any time?
— Alex R
Sources: Robo Menevä (English page, read Nov 14, 2026); Menevä notice (Finnish, updated 12 Nov 2026); Yrittäjät interview with Tuomo Halminen (12 Nov 2026); Traficom decision and Tesla Robotaxi figures as linked in my earlier pages. Comparison table and fleet share are my own. Hero photo: Lasse Keskinen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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