Tesla logged 93,000 supervised Full Self‑Driving miles abroad, Teslarati reports
- Tesla logged 93,000 supervised Full Self-Driving miles at its Giga Berlin factory by May 13, using private-site testing while Germany still bars public deployment. (teslarati.com) - The reported total was about 150,000 kilometers, gathered on factory grounds where newly built cars drove themselves to staging areas under employee supervision. (teslarati.com) - After the Netherlands’ April 10 approval, any broader European rollout still depends on additional national validity and UNECE-based regulatory processes. (rdw.nl)
Tesla has logged about 93,000 miles of supervised Full Self-Driving operation inside its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg complex even though German customers still cannot use the feature on public roads, according to a Teslarati report published on May 13. The mileage — roughly 150,000 kilometers — was accumulated on private factory property, where newly built Model Y vehicles use the software to move themselves from production to outbound staging areas. (teslarati.com) Teslarati said the setup let Tesla collect vehicle telemetry and driver-behavior data without waiting for public-road approval in Germany. Tesla’s Berlin plant says it produces hundreds of thousands of Model Y vehicles a year. ### Where did the 93,000 miles come from? Giga Berlin was the site Teslarati identified for the testing, citing Tesla factory operations in Germany. (rdw.nl) The report said vehicles used supervised Full Self-Driving on internal routes after assembly, allowing Tesla to rack up mileage in a controlled environment that is not open to ordinary public traffic. A factory-tour description carried by secondary reports said a general assembly employee identified as Jan explained that freshly built cars navigate marked pathways and park themselves in outbound areas. Teslarati’s account tied that process to the 93,000-mile total. ### Why could Tesla run FSD there if Germany has not approved it for drivers? (teslarati.com) Germany’s restriction applies to public-road deployment, while Tesla’s Berlin factory grounds are private property. Teslarati said that distinction allowed the company to operate the system under supervision and gather data before any consumer launch on public streets. UNECE Regulation No. 171, which entered into force in September 2024, sets the framework for Driver Control Assistance Systems in markets that use the U.N. vehicle-approval regime. (teslarati.com) The rule defines such systems as Level 2 assistance, meaning the driver remains responsible and must continuously monitor the vehicle and surroundings. (wheelfront.com) ### What kind of data was Tesla collecting? Teslarati reported that Tesla’s factory testing structure captured telemetry and driver-behavior logs during supervised operation. The article described the arrangement as a way to build a data record while regulators in Europe were still evaluating how FSD Supervised should be approved and limited. (teslarati.com) Tesla’s own support material describes Full Self-Driving as a supervised system that requires the driver to keep eyes on the road and remain ready to intervene at all times. That framing matches the regulatory category used in Europe for driver-assistance systems rather than fully autonomous vehicles. ### Has Tesla won any approval in Europe yet? The Dutch vehicle authority RDW said on April 10 that it had issued a type approval for Tesla’s FSD Supervised system with provisional validity in the Netherlands. (unece.org) RDW said the system had been examined and tested for more than 18 months on its test track and on public roads, and added that a vehicle with FSD Supervised “is not self-driving.” RDW also said in November 2025 that it does not disclose details of ongoing applications from manufacturers because they are commercially sensitive. (teslarati.com) That left Tesla’s broader European timetable dependent on separate regulatory steps beyond the Dutch decision. (tesla.com) ### What happens next for Tesla in Europe? The Netherlands is the first confirmed European market with that approval status, while Germany still has no public-road consumer deployment cited in the sources reviewed here. UNECE’s DCAS framework is already in force, but implementation still runs through national and regional approval channels. Tesla’s next visible step in Europe is likely to come through additional country-level validity, product rollout notices, or regulator statements tied to FSD Supervised availability. (rdw.nl) Tesla’s Dutch support pages already refer to FSD Supervised programs for owners, including a transfer offer ending May 15, 2026, indicating that the company is building commercial processes around the feature where approval exists. (rdw.nl) (tesla.com)
