Tesla has announced the full its Full Self-Driving (FSD) supervised software to all eligible cars in Australia and New Zealand, making them the first right-hand-drive markets in the world to obtain the landmark technology.
Last week we reported that Tesla had begun sending early Supervised FSD software invitations to customers nationwide with the eligible Hardware 4.0 (also known as AI4) capable cars in Australia and New Zealand.
Now, existing FSD supervised customers with Hardware 4.0 Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, and who have prepaid for FSD, will be able to download the update from Thursday morning. This is done with an over the air update.
FSD supervised will also be available on all new vehicles as an option with the current pricing of $10,100. There are also plans to have FSD as a monthly subscription, with Australian prices to be around $149/month.
Tesla describes the technology as the future of transport.
“Tesla uses billions of miles of anonymous real-world driving data to train FSD (Supervised) to take care of the most stressful parts of daily driving while helping make the roads safer for vehicle owners and others,” it says.
“When enabled, under the driver’s active supervision, Tesla vehicles can drive people almost anywhere requiring minimal intervention.”
According to Tesla, this software is a hands-on feature and doesn’t make the car fully autonomous, and drivers will need to keep full control of the vehicle in the drivers seat, although it also says it will require “minimal” intervention by the driver.
“FSD (Supervised) is a hands-on feature that must be used by a fully attentive driver with additional caution and does not make the vehicle autonomous,” the company says. “Drivers must maintain proper control of the vehicle at all times, pay attention and be prepared to take immediate action at any moment.”
In the event that the driver is spotted to not be paying attention, warnings from the software will be issued to pay attention.
If ignored on multiple occasions and the driver does not apply force to the steering wheel, the system will be unavailable on that drive. If the driver does not resume control, the vehicle will automatically turn on hazard lights and slow down to a complete stop.
FSD supervised system has been trained using billions of kilometres of real-world data and according to the company, it can make daily driving stress free and safer for all road users.
When turned on, the active FSD supervised software can now drive people in Australia and New Zealand to their destination with minimal intervention.
In May 2025, Tesla released a video of its supervised full-self-driving (FSD), which showed a Tesla Model 3 driving on Australian roads in Melbourne without driver intervention.
Then two months later July, Tesla released another video showing a supervised FSD journey around the streets of Sydney.
In August, Tesla shared a video of FSD testing in New Zealand, highlighting its capabilities of driving on narrow inner-city streets of Auckland. During the drive, a Model 3 sedan was seen going around tight road sections, showcasing what the system could do on inner-city streets.
These videos highlighted the testing Tesla is undertaking to bring FSD to Australia and New Zealand ahead of the teaser video we saw on the software “Coming Soon” to our market.
That showcasing of the system on our local roads comes after the system was initially released in left-hand-drive US as a Beta a few years ago.
It’s also worth noting that earlier this year, it was launched in more left-hand-drive markets like Mexico, China (city streets version).
With the official public release now available to customers, it marks a major milestone for Tesla’s local FSD efforts with Australia and New Zealand being the first right-hand-drive market to land the software, ahead of the UK and others.
Having recently tested FSD supervised in Melbourne and regional Victoria, I can confidently say that it handles our roads incredibly well for an initial release, tackling almost all road scenarios with quite confidently.
We look forward to a more in-depth review of the system in the coming days but in the meantime, Tesla’s most highly appreciated product can now be accessed by thousands across the country. This marks an almost game-changing moment in the future of our transport sector in Australia.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.
