Tesla confirms FSD v14 Lite in active development for Australia and NZ — HW3 owners still locked out
Tesla has confirmed FSD v14 Lite for older HW3 vehicles is in active development for Australian and New Zealand roads — but with no locally certified build released yet, owners who already bought or subscribed to the software remain locked out.
FSD v14 Lite has already been rolling out to HW3 cars in markets like the US, but Australia and New Zealand have lagged because different road conditions and regulations require separate localization work.
Tesla confirmed the Australia/NZ build is now in active development, though it gave no release date — meaning HW3 owners who already paid for or subscribed to FSD still can't use it.
There's a deeper ceiling too: Tesla has previously said HW3 hardware simply cannot support unsupervised (driverless) autonomy at all, so even once v14 Lite ships, it will remain a Level 2 supervised system requiring driver attention.
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