Estonia has cleared Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised system for use on public roads after the country’s Transport Administration accepted the Dutch type approval that Tesla secured earlier this year.
The decision puts Estonia beside the Netherlands and Lithuania as the third European Union country to approve the system at the national level. Tesla said rollout in Estonia will begin soon, though it has not said which software build will go out first.
Dutch approval opened the door
The Estonian move rests on the Dutch approval issued by RDW on April 10. That approval came after about 18 months of testing and covered more than 1.6 million kilometres and 4,500 test scenarios. Estonia is treating that approval as valid under its own national process, which lets member states recognise a temporary approval from another EU authority for new technology.
RDW said the system can be used in the Netherlands, with later acceptance possible in other EU markets. Tesla has been pressing for that broader recognition, and Estonia is now one more country to accept the Dutch path.
Tesla’s FSD Supervised remains a Level 2 driver-assistance system. The car can handle steering, braking and acceleration in many driving situations, but the driver stays responsible at all times and must be ready to take over right away.
That part has not changed. The system still needs constant human supervision and strong driver attention checks through the cabin camera and warning logic. Tesla has not said which version will be used in Estonia, though market watchers think the rollout may be based on a v14.2.2.5 build.
Wider European rollout
The Estonia approval follows the first European launch in the Netherlands and the later rollout in Lithuania. Tesla has said European owners have already logged millions of kilometres on FSD Supervised, and the company keeps pushing for more national acceptances while Brussels works through the wider rulebook for advanced driver-assistance systems.
Still, full EU-wide approval has not arrived yet. The European Commission has not granted a bloc-wide green light, so Tesla must keep relying on national recognition in countries that choose to accept the Dutch approval.
The move gives Tesla another foothold in Europe and adds pressure on other regulators to decide how they want to handle the system. For Tesla owners in Estonia, the change is more immediate. Rollout should start soon, and that puts the country inside a small but growing group of European markets where FSD Supervised is now legal under supervision.
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