Tesla Expands FSD Trials to Madrid and Sydney

Tesla has broadened the overseas testing of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, releasing a video on 3 July of a Model 3 navigating central Madrid and a second video on 17 July showing the software operating in Sydney. The demonstrations mark the first public trials of the technology in Spain and Australia. The Madrid run follows earlier European pilots in Paris, Rome and Berlin, while the Sydney test extends the program to the Asia-Pacific region. Tesla is working with regulators in both markets to secure approval for a commercial rollout; until clearance is granted the feature remains in a supervised test phase. FSD Supervised is already available to owners in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. Once authorised elsewhere, the company intends to activate the software on existing Model S, 3, X and Y vehicles through over-the-air updates. Tesla employs a camera-only, neural-network-based approach that it says can ultimately enable unsupervised driving. The company reports that, in the first quarter, drivers using its Autopilot suite were involved in crashes at one-tenth the rate of the national average in the United States.