Tesla FSD Europe Update Caps Speed Margin at 10% Over the Limit

The Tesla FSD Europe rollout just got a lot more cautious. The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has approved a set of changes that cap the system’s speed margin at 10% above the posted limit, down from 50%, and make the name Tesla Assisted Driving official inside the car.

The RDW announced the decision on November 3. According to the regulator’s own notice, Tesla asked it to assess “a number of minor changes” to FSD Supervised, and the authority found no adverse or unintended effects on how the car drives.

What changes in Tesla FSD Europe

The speed margin is a setting that lets the system drive slightly above the detected limit when it decides that is needed for safety and traffic flow. Until now drivers could set it as high as +50%, which on a 100 km/h road meant up to 150 km/h in theory. The new ceiling is +10%, or 110 km/h on the same road.

There are two more limits. Every time the car is started, the margin goes back to 0%, and other speed related functions are switched off by default. The RDW did not say which functions those are.

The update applies to cars with Hardware 4 or later. The Tesla Assisted Driving name will appear on the in-car display, in the owner’s manual and in all other driver information. Tesla has been using that name on its European websites since early October, as we covered when Tesla renamed its Full Self-Driving package in Turkey and Europe. The changes will arrive over the air, but neither Tesla nor the RDW has given a date or software version.

Why the speed cap matters for an EU-wide approval

The Dutch approval from April 10 remains valid under the same conditions. Besides the Netherlands, nine countries recognize it: Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Czechia joined that list in September, when Tesla expanded FSD Supervised to Czechia.

Speed has been the main sticking point in Brussels. Sweden asked the EU in June to reject the system unless Tesla removed settings above the limit altogether, and France has cited urban speeding among its reasons for not recognizing the Dutch approval. In October, Germany’s Transport Ministry said it would back an EU approval if Tesla dropped the “Full Self-Driving” name and capped the speed tolerance at 10%, as Electrek reports. This update delivers both.

The final decision sits with the EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles, which needs a qualified majority of 15 of 27 member states representing at least 65% of the population. The RDW says those talks are confidential. Whether a 10% cap is enough for countries like Sweden and France is the open question.

For more on how the system has evolved, browse our Tesla coverage.