π UPDATE β May 22, 2026
Flemish Minister of Mobility Annick De Ridder has confirmed that Belgium's Tesla FSD (Supervised) testing program is now 40% complete β 2,000 km out of the planned 5,000 km have been logged using three Tesla test vehicles. The milestone suggests the approval timeline is progressing on schedule, bringing Europe-wide FSD access meaningfully closer. No revised approval date has been announced, but the pace of testing indicates the remaining 3,000 km could be completed within weeks.
via @TeslaNewswire Β· May 22, 2026
Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) rollout in Europe just got a meaningful push forward. Belgium's Minister of Mobility has confirmed that approval granted in any single Belgian region β Flanders, Wallonia, or Brussels-Capital β will be recognized nationwide. That removes a significant regulatory hurdle, and according to reports, that approval is now expected within weeks.
The significance here goes beyond Belgium's borders. Tesla has already secured authorization for limited public road testing of FSD (Supervised) in Flanders, giving it a regulatory foothold in the country. Once full approval clears β in any one of the three regions β it automatically applies across all of Belgium. That's a clean, efficient path that other European markets haven't offered, and it sets a potential template for how FSD gains ground on the continent.
Europe has been one of the last major markets without access to FSD (Supervised), largely due to the fragmented regulatory landscape across member states. Belgium clearing the way doesn't automatically unlock other countries, but it does give Tesla a live European deployment to point to β which carries real weight in ongoing conversations with regulators elsewhere. For the roughly 500,000 Tesla owners across Europe who've been watching this from the sidelines, Belgium is the crack in the door.
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