Tesla says FSD Supervised tops 160 million km in Australia and New Zealand
Tesla marked the first year of FSD Supervised in Australia and New Zealand with more than 160 million km driven, a regional safety scorecard and fresh context on the software’s rollout across the two markets.
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Tesla marks a year of FSD Supervised in Australia and New Zealand
Tesla Australia and New Zealand marked the first anniversary of FSD Supervised on 18 September 2026 by saying local drivers had covered more than 160 million km with the software. Tesla framed that distance as about 4,000 laps around Earth. Tesla’s regional X post did not break the figure down between Australia and New Zealand, and the company has not said how many vehicles or paid subscriptions sit behind the total. 213
What Tesla’s safety scorecard said
Tesla paired the mileage milestone with a safety scorecard covering 17 September 2025 to 16 September 2026. The graphic said FSD Supervised produced 40% fewer collisions than manual driving, 66% fewer Automatic Emergency Braking events, 90% fewer harsh braking events, 86% fewer harsh acceleration events, 76% fewer harsh lateral acceleration events and 80% fewer horn uses. The same material compared roughly 160 million km on FSD with about 2.4 billion km driven manually with Active Safety on. 213
Important qualifiers on the data
Tesla’s graphics described the figures as approximate and drawn from the Australia and New Zealand fleet across all road types. That qualification matters because the scorecard is a regional, company-published snapshot rather than a country-by-country breakdown or an independent audit of the system’s performance. 1
Rollout context in the region
TeslaNorth reported that Australia and New Zealand were Tesla’s first right-hand-drive markets for FSD Supervised, and said Hardware 4 cars in those markets moved onto the v14 stack in June. Not a Tesla App said the local launch began in September 2025 and that the Australian and New Zealand fleet started with FSD v13 before later receiving v14. It also said Tesla confirmed in late August that FSD v14 Lite for Hardware 3 cars in Australia and New Zealand was still in active development, with no public download date given. 13
What remains unchanged for drivers
Despite the anniversary figures, the system remains supervised. Tesla’s own wording and the accompanying coverage made clear that drivers still have to watch the road, intervene when needed and treat the software as driver assistance rather than autonomous driving. Tesla also did not publish a country split for the 160 million km figure, so the regional total remains the only number it has publicly given for the Australia and New Zealand market pair. 12
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