Tesla now heads to the UK with supervised FSD testing showcase after Australia

Last week, Tesla had its Q2 earnings call where in the presentation deck, an image of a right-hand-drive Model 3 undertaking supervised full-self-driving (FSD) testing in the UK was shared.

At that time, no further details were provided on the progress of the roll out with many wondering if the company will share footage of the UK FSD testing efforts so far.

Now, the company has released a 2 minutes 30 seconds video on Tesla’s Europe X account of a trip undertaken in a FSD-equipped Tesla, driving around some key sites around London.

The company said in the shared post: “Full drive through London, UK, FSD Supervised is pending regulatory approval.”

In the video, multiple London landmarks are spotted as the car autonomously drives through traffic, stopping for pedestrians, and completing a journey around busy streets of the city.

Some of these landmarks spotted included Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square which can be seen as the Tesla FSD system completed the trip on an overcast summer day.

This is not the first time, FSD supervised is spotted being tested in a right-hand-drive market.

In May this year, Tesla released a video of its supervised full-self-driving (FSD), which showed a Tesla Model 3 driving on Australian roads in Melbourne without any driver input on its trip.

Then earlier this month, Tesla released another video showing that time a supervised FSD journey around the streets of Sydney.

Like this London trip which highlighted a few landmarks, the Sydney FSD trip started wit the car seen going around a roundabout where the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera house are seen in the background.

Then a couple of days after that Sydney video was released, the company’s country director, Thom Drew, responded on LinkedIn clarifying that there are no regulatory blockers for the software to be rolled out in right-hand-drive markets of Australia and New Zealand.

This was a major update and outlined that the rollout of FSD supervised software will start on hardware 4 (HW4) before further releases in phases to more Tesla vehicles in our market.

Drew’s comments were also noted by some owners in the UK who had eagerly been waiting to see if the company would show progress in their own market in the coming weeks. This did happen with the release of the latest video of FSD being tested around the streets of London.

With so much of the company’s future being hedged on FSD and it’s success in multiple global markets, it’d be well received by many in UK, others in key right-hand-drive markets and observers of the autonomous vehicle industry, who are waiting to see how quickly Tesla can get approvals from individual market regulators and expand globally.