Tesla FSD officially launches in South Korea today, bringing the total number of countries where the feature is available to seven. The rollout follows earlier launches in Australia and New Zealand this year.

On Sunday, multiple South Korean Tesla owners reported that their vehicles began receiving the FSD software update. According to the owners, the current pushed version is v14.1.4 — not the latest version deployed in other regions, but still one of Tesla’s recent major releases, widely distributed to users.

With this, South Korea becomes the seventh country to receive Tesla’s FSD capability, joining the United States, Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory), Canada, China, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to IT Home, Tesla’s most recent FSD expansion before this was the launch in Australia and New Zealand about three months ago. This ongoing global rollout marks a breakthrough in the company’s strategy to deploy FSD worldwide.

However, Tesla’s most significant challenge to date remains the complex regulatory approval process in Europe, where lengthy administrative procedures have significantly delayed the deployment of its semi-autonomous driving system on the continent.

Recently, Tesla stated that it has identified a viable path forward: collaborating with regulatory authorities in the Netherlands. Compared to other European countries, Dutch regulators have shown greater willingness to cooperate and are expected to potentially lead the way in enabling FSD’s rollout in Europe.

Tesla has announced that it has completed over 1 million kilometers of internal safety testing on public roads across 17 European countries. To secure FSD approval in Europe, the company plans to partner with the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW) to apply for functional exemptions. The dual-track approach includes:

• Demonstrating that FSD complies with existing regulations (such as the UN-R-171 DCAS standard), and
• Submitting exemption applications under EU Article 39 to cover driving behaviors not yet explicitly regulated — such as L2 system operation in non-highway scenarios and autonomous lane changes initiated by the system without requiring hands on the steering wheel.

Expanding into the European market may prove to be Tesla’s most difficult challenge yet, but success would deliver significant strategic advantages and growth potential. Tesla has stated that it aims to launch FSD in select European regions as early as the beginning of next year.

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