Italy supports the EU’s approval for Tesla FSD. Voting will not take place before December.
Vice Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini supported a joint EU approval for Tesla Assisted Driving, the European version of FSD. He wrote about this on X on October 29 after talking with Elon Musk. However, Italy has not yet allowed the system on its roads, with voting in the Union set to take place at the earliest in December.
What Salvini Wrote
Salvini described the conversation with Musk as fruitful and added that Italy wants to support innovation and road safety. He called for a quick decision at the European level. His post does not indicate that Rome intends to seek national approval separately, as noted by the site Not a Tesla App.
The Path to EU Approval
The Dutch RDW issued a preliminary, temporary approval in April. Other countries may recognize it within their own jurisdictions while the EU procedure is underway. Italy joins Germany, which also supported the European approval but on condition of changes: the system’s name (Tesla has already changed it) and the speed offset limits relative to the speed limit.
To pass, the decision requires at least 15 member states representing at least 65% of the EU’s population.
Where FSD is already in use
Latvia became the tenth EU country to approve the system on October 26, although the update has not yet reached vehicles. Previously, the Netherlands (April), Lithuania and Estonia (May), Denmark and Belgium (June), Slovenia, Czechia and Croatia (September), and Slovakia (October) granted approval. Five of these countries joined in the past few months, so the pace is accelerating.
In the world, FSD is approved in 18 markets, including Puerto Rico. The first was the United States in October 2020, followed by Canada in March 2022. In Mexico, Puerto Rico, and China (with a limited rollout), the system launched in February 2025, in Australia and New Zealand in September 2025, and in South Korea in November 2025.
Outside North America, HW4 hardware is used everywhere. The exception is South Korea, where HW3 with v14 Lite also operates. Not a Tesla App expects the union to approve FSD only for vehicles with HW4, so HW3 owners can only rely on the hardware replacement promised by Tesla.
From the editorial team: Poland is not on the list of countries with national approval, so voting in the EU seems to require waiting. Approval from authorities also does not mean driving without driver intervention, as illustrated by our account of a 32-minute drive through Bratislava, with several human interventions.
Source: NotATeslaApp
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