Tesla is preparing to get Full Self-Driving package approved in China

Tesla is preparing to get Full Self-Driving (FSD) package approved in China – starting with employee vehicles.

Last month, Tesla’s stock jumped on a report that the automaker was “granted approval under certain conditions” to deploy FSD in China.

According to Reuters, Tesla is going through the process of registering the product with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

A successful software registration will pave the way for Tesla to internally test Full Self-Driving (FSD) by having its employees drive on China’s public roads

before delivering it as an upgrade to its Chinese users in the coming months.

Tesla is expected to adapt the system to Chinese roads by collecting data from customer vehicles

and then testing the system in an internal employee fleet.

As the automaker sees the system working on Chinese roads, it would deploy to customer vehicles through over-the-air software updates.

Tesla is also working on a similar effort in Europe, where its FSD features have also yet to be approved.

The automaker’s efforts to deploy the more advanced driver assist features in new markets come after the release of FSD v12 in North America,

which Musk touted as an important step toward self-driving.