Dutch regulator approves Tesla Assisted Driving, cuts speed margin to 10%

Dutch regulator approves Tesla Assisted Driving, cuts speed margin to 10%

3 November 2026: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has approved a set of changes to the driver assistance system it knows as FSD Supervised, including a new name and a much tighter limit on how far the car may exceed the posted speed. The system becomes Tesla Assisted Driving, or TAD, and the highest margin a driver can set falls from 50% to 10%.

Not yet independently verified. The only source is the RDW's own news page. It gives no software version or rollout date, and Tesla's own pages could not be opened from here, so we have no Tesla statement on timing. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

What changes in the car

The RDW says Tesla asked it to assess a number of small changes, which it has now added to the earlier approval. The manufacturer will carry them out. They apply to Tesla models with TAD and hardware version 4.0 or higher.

Three things are different for the person behind the wheel:

• Name: Tesla Assisted Driving appears on the in-car screen, in the manual and in all driver information.
• Speed margin: the driver may set a percentage by which the system can exceed the limit where safety and traffic flow call for it. In the RDW's words, "Die marge was +50% en wordt nu beperkt tot maximaal +10%": the margin was 50% and is now limited to at most 10%.
• Defaults: when the car starts, the margin stands at 0%, and other speed-related functions are switched off.

On a road limited to 100 km/h, that takes the highest setting from 150 km/h to 110 km/h.

What does not change

The RDW is clear that the way the system works stays the same. It remains a driver assistance system, and the driver stays responsible for driving.

The regulator says it checked how the changes were made and how the system behaves, and found no adverse or unintended effects on the system or on the car's driving behaviour. The existing type approval therefore stays valid under the same conditions and for the same use, and does not need to be amended or extended.

Where it applies

Tesla delivers the update over the air, like its other software. The RDW has informed the member states that adopted its type approval: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Czechia.

Approval across the whole EU is a separate matter. It is still under discussion in the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, known as the TCMV. The RDW says those talks are confidential and that it will not comment on them.

What fleet operators should update

A company running HW4 Teslas in the Netherlands or the nine adopting countries has some housekeeping to do once the update arrives. Driver handbooks and risk assessments that use the old product name will need the new one. Any policy written around the old margin should be checked against the 10% ceiling and the 0% default at each start.

Training material matters too. Drivers will find the margin at 0% each time the car starts, and the other speed-related functions off, until they choose otherwise.

Tesla in our catalogue

Tesla is one of 52 car makers we list, and the Model Y and Model 3 are among our electric cars. The RDW's page names no models, only the hardware version, so buyers should check which hardware their own cars carry.

Sources

• RDW: RDW keurt wijzigingen aan Tesla-rijhulpsysteem goed, 3 November 2026, 3 November 2026