Tesla's Full Self-Driving will turn 10 years old next month. Nearly four of those years have labeled FSD as an official beta product, and over two additional years have been under the new "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" rebranding. Whatever the name, the car that is in your driveway today still can't technically drive itself without you being responsible for what happens behind the wheel.

Needless to say, some drivers are getting impatient—especially those who have purchased FSD for multiple cars, or have managed to pay off their car loan before getting unsupervised FSD. Now a consumer advocacy group in South Korea is firing back to demand answers and accountability.

The rollout of FSD in Korea is even more confusing that it is in the U.S. thanks to another layer of complexity: where the vehicle was manufactured.

According to Reuters, only about 20% of the Teslas registered in South Korea—vehicles assembled in the United States—are actually eligible to enable the Full Self-Driving software. That's because those vehicles meet the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, and a trade agreement with the U.S. designates those standards as acceptable to enter Korea without additional modification.

The majority of the remaining vehicles have been manufactured in China, where no agreement (or supplementary safety certification) for its FSD software exists today. Since 2023, Tesla has imported about 170,000 of these Shanghai-built cars with the volume of Chinese-built cars increasing five-fold last year alone. In fact, 99% of Teslas imported into China in 2025 were from China and ineligible to activate FSD.

Source link