Tesla's FSD Beta Starts Being a Part of Regular Updates

Tesla made changes to the Autopilot menu in FSD Beta v11

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Tesla is now tucking FSD Beta into its regular software updates. Updates like 2023.12.11 and 2023.20.6, and several others, now carry FSD Beta 11.3.6. But it's not for everyone - like many other Tesla features; it depends on your location and the Tesla you drive.

So far, if you were an FSD Beta user, you often had to wait weeks or months for new non-FSD features. That's because Tesla usually launched FSD Beta updates separately from their main production releases. But now that FSD Beta is beginning to be bundled into regular updates, the wait for new features might be shorter.

FSD Beta is Now Just Another Feature

The same update behaves differently depending on where you are. We chatted with Tesla owners in the U.S. and other countries. A user in the U.S. who downloaded the 2023.12.11 update kept their access to FSD Beta. But a driver outside the U.S. who got the same update didn't get FSD Beta access. Tesla is now packing FSD Beta into some regular updates, and it may only be a matter of time before every update has FSD Beta baked right in. However, like most Tesla features, FSD Beta will be limited by region and hardware.

Update Version, FSD Version

Tesla now lists the FSD Beta version separately

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Versions numbers have often caused some confusion with Tesla using different version numbers for software, individual updates, FSD and navigation updates.

With these new updates, Tesla will now make it a little easier to understand which FSD Beta version you have by listing the FSD version separately from the update version.

Changes to the Autopilot Menu

With FSD Beta v11, Tesla made changes to the Autopilot menu, making it easier to choose the Autopilot capabilities you wanted to use. Interestingly, if a user without Beta access receives a build with FSD Beta, their Autopilot menu will remain the same as non-beta builds, instead of the newer version that offers a simplified choice where the user can select from TACC, Auto Steer or FSD Beta.

Bringing Everyone Up to Speed

One downside to the old system was that FSD Beta users were often a step behind when it came to new features. For example, while most Tesla users are now on updates 2023.12 or even 2023.20, FSD Beta users are still on 2023.7, which only has 2023.6 features. By incorporating FSD Beta into regular updates, Tesla might help more users stay up-to-date, and you'll no longer have to pick between testing FSD Beta or having the latest features.

By incorporating FSD Beta into regular updates, Tesla also makes it easier for new owners to receive FSD Beta builds. New subscribers often needed to wait weeks or even months after subscribing to FSD Beta in order to receive FSD BEta. This was caused by Tesla not allowing users to roll back software versions. If someone was already on 2023.12 and subscribed to FSD Beta, then they'd need to wait until FSD Beta was available on a 2023.12 branch before their vehicle was eligible for the update.

With FSD Beta becoming just another feature, FSD Beta may soon just be a flag that is enabled or disabled on an owner's vehicle instead of needing a separate update.

One thing to remember is that these updates don't have the latest FSD Beta. They include FSD Beta 11.3.6, not the freshest 11.4.4 version. But Tesla might have more surprises up its sleeve.

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You Can Now Track Tesla’s Robotaxi Deployment

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Thanks to Tesla Yoda on X, we have found out that Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet is registered on the Texas Department of Transportation’s public-facing Automated Vehicle Deployment website. This makes the fleet’s movements publicly viewable and trackable, and marks a first for Tesla.

This isn’t just any old FSD test - this is the first officially acknowledged, government-tracked, and sanctioned deployment of a Tesla Model Y operating as a ride-share vehicle. But that’s not all - Texas DOT’s tracker notes that the Tesla does not have a safety driver.

View on the Map

Visitors to the Texas DOT website can filter for “Tesla”, and see, currently, a single active vehicle operating in the Austin Metro area. According to the state’s official data, here’s what we know:

Company: Tesla

Description: Ride-share service

Status in Texas: Testing

Safety Driver: No

The final point is definitely the most significant here. While Tesla has been testing FSD with safety drivers for some time in Austin and LA for employee-only testing, this is the first time that a vehicle has been officially registered and deployed on public roads without a human behind the wheel for safety. 

The fact that there is no safety driver officially shifts the liability from the occupant of the driver’s seat to Tesla, for the first time in a public setting. That’s already pretty significant - we previously dove into how Tesla plans to insure its own vehicles, and potentially owner vehicles in the Robotaxi fleets. 

The status currently lists Tesla as “Testing,” confirming that the service isn’t available to the public, but this is expected to change in the coming weeks.

This testing phase is likely part of a short but crucial period that lets Tesla capture data on the safety levels of its current iteration of Unsupervised FSD without a driver supervising. Tesla already stated that they’d be avoiding difficult areas, so this testing can also expose additional areas Tesla may want to avoid, such as school zones or blind driveways.

Tesla will need to prove, both internally and externally, that FSD Unsupervised has the necessary performance to safely navigate the streets without any incidents.

Regulatory Milestone

For years, the concept of a Tesla Robotaxi has been a future promise. Now, it's a present-day reality, albeit in a testing capacity.

Having an official government body list a Tesla as an active, driverless vehicle shows that they’ve been able to clear regulatory hurdles, which Tesla has often pointed to as the issue. It demonstrates a level of confidence from both Tesla and Texas regulators in the system's capabilities.

While it's just a single vehicle for today, we’ll likely see this list slowly expand over time. Alongside being able to track Robotaxi incidents at the City of Austin’s website, we’ll be able to closely watch Tesla’s progress with its first Robotaxi deployments.

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Tesla FSD in Europe: June Update

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The road to bringing FSD to Europe has been a long and complex one and filled with regulatory and bureaucratic hurdles. Elon Musk, as well as other members of Tesla’s AI team, have previously voiced their grievances with the regulatory approval process on X.

However, it appears that there is finally some progress in getting things moving with recent changes to upcoming autonomy regulations, but the process still seems slow.

Waiting on the Dutch

Elon commented on X recently, stating that Tesla is waiting for approval from Dutch authorities and then the EU to start rolling out FSD in Europe. Tesla is focusing on acquiring approvals from the Dutch transportation authority, which will provide them with the platform they need to gain broader acceptance in Europe. Outside of the Netherlands, Tesla is also conducting testing in Norway, which provides a couple of avenues for them to obtain national-level approval.

The frustration has been ongoing, with multiple committee meetings bringing up autonomy regulation but always pulling back at the last second before approving anything. The last meeting on Regulation 157, which governs Automated Lane Keeping Systems, concluded with authorities from the UK and Spain requesting additional time to analyze the data before reaching a conclusion.

Tesla, as well as Elon, have motioned several times for owners to reach out to their elected representatives to move the process forward, as it seems that Tesla’s own efforts are being stymied. 

This can seem odd, especially since Tesla has previously demoed FSD working exceptionally smoothly on European roads - and just did it again in Rome when they shared the video below on X.

FSD Supervised testing in Rome, Italy

Pending regulatory approval pic.twitter.com/TXh3uQIfrx

— Tesla Europe & Middle East (@teslaeurope) June 12, 2025

DCAS Phase 3

While the approval process has been slow, Kees Roelandschap pointed out that there may be a different regulatory step that could allow FSD to gain a foothold in Europe.

According to Kees, the European Commission is now taking a new approach to approving ADAS systems under the new DCAS Phase 3 regulations. The Commission is now seeking data from systems currently operational in the United States that can perform System-Initiated Maneuvers and don’t require hands-on intervention for every request.

This is key because those are two of the core functionalities that make FSD so usable, and it also means that there may not be a need to wait years for proper regulations to be written from scratch. Now, the Commission will be looking at real-world data based on existing, deployed technology, which could speed up the process immensely.

What This Means

This new, data-driven regulatory approach could be the path for Tesla to reach its previous target of September for European FSD. While the cogs of bureaucracy are ever slow, sometimes all it takes is a little data to have them turn a bit faster in this case.

Alongside specific countries granting approval for limited field testing with employees, there is some light at the end of the tunnel for FSD in Europe, and hopes are that a release will occur by the end of 2025. With Europe now looking to North America for how FSD is performing, Tesla’s Robotaxi results could also play a role.

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