UPDATE, February 13, 2026 2:30 p.m.: Tesla Australia has clarified that customers will still be able to pre-pay for vehicles with FSD monitoring after March 31, 2026, as long as the vehicle is ordered before that date.
Tesla Australia will soon lose solvency Fully autonomous driving (monitored) in advance, as it is switching to a pure subscription model like in the USA.
If you would like to prepay for FSD Supervised, which costs $10,100 and is only available for vehicles with Hardware 4, you must order and take delivery of a new Tesla by March 31, 2026.
Tesla has not confirmed when vehicles with the previous Hardware 2 and Hardware 3 systems will be able to upgrade to FSD Supervised.
From April 1, 2026, you will only be able to have one subscription. The price remains $149 per month (NZ$159 in New Zealand).
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This means this advanced system will be available on vehicles as affordable as the base Model 3 Premium ($54,900 before on-roads) and the Model Y Premium ($58,900 before on-roads).
These models come standard with Basic Autopilot, which includes adaptive cruise control and lane centering. It looks like Tesla Australia will not follow the US market and abandon the standard Autopilot.
The company is currently offering the option to transfer Enhanced Autopilot or FSD Supervised to a new vehicle, but this too ends on March 31, 2026.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on February 14, 2026 that the company would no longer offer FSD as a pre-purchase, although Tesla Australia said at the time that this was a US initiative.
FSD Supervised was activated for Australia and New Zealand in September 2025 and was initially only available as a pre-purchase shortly before the subscription was launched.
Tesla has been field testing its fully autonomous driving system to ensure it can handle unique Australian driving scenarios such as Melbourne corners.
It is a level 2 driver assistance system capable of navigating curves, intersections and roundabouts, as well as detecting and responding to pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles and other vehicles on the road.
It will work without having your hands on the steering wheel, although Tesla makes it clear that the system still requires the driver’s full control and supervision.
The function is supported by Tesla Vision. This means that vehicles only use cameras to record their surroundings, in contrast to the advanced driver assistance systems of competing brands, which can also use sensors, radar and LiDAR.
The use of FSD (Supervised) is also suspended once the driver of the vehicle receives five “strikeouts” – that is, when the system is deactivated for the remainder of the trip after multiple audible and visual warnings for inattention have been issued.
An in-cab camera monitors the driver while the feature is activated and cannot be deactivated.
Tesla says it doesn’t require a full view of the driver’s eyes to monitor attention, but it will issue warnings if the driver’s hands and arms are not clearly visible.
If you ignore all of the system’s warnings, the car will eventually emit a continuous tone, turn on the hazard lights, and slow down until it comes to a complete stop.
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