Dutch car-sharing company MyWheels wants to become the first major European operator to put Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised system into shared cars. It plans to deploy at least 50 FSD-equipped Teslas in 2026, with the first car already in service.
But after questions from Newmobility.news, MyWheels is adding an important nuance to its original claim. These are not self-driving cars in the legal or technical sense. FSD Supervised remains an advanced driver-assistance system, and the person behind the wheel remains responsible at all times.
“When we speak about self-driving shared cars, we explicitly mean the future perspective,” MyWheels says. For now, it calls the project a small-scale learning exercise for increasingly automated car-sharing.
Selected users first
The initial rollout will also be more controlled than the press release might suggest. MyWheels says it will start with a “limited, selected user group”. Participants will receive guidance on how FSD works, its limitations and their responsibility as drivers.
Tesla requires users to follow instructions before using FSD Supervised, including an instructional video and a quiz. MyWheels says it will follow Tesla’s requirements but has not yet decided exactly how access will be managed for each user and vehicle.
That matters in car-sharing. A private Tesla is usually driven by one or a few people who gradually learn how the system behaves. A shared car can be used by many drivers with very different experience with advanced assistance systems.
Human-factors research has repeatedly warned about overtrust, automation complacency and confusion over what driver-assistance systems can and cannot do. The concern is that occasional users may misunderstand its limits or react too slowly when it behaves unexpectedly.
Who pays when FSD gets it wrong?
Liability is another grey area. MyWheels confirms that, under current rules, the driver remains responsible for the driving task while FSD is active.
The company says insurers currently make no specific exception for FSD Supervised and that it remains in close contact with its insurer over future phases.
However, MyWheels does not claim that every accident will automatically be the driver’s fault. If vehicle data point to a technical or product-related cause, liability could also become an issue for Tesla or other parties. Such cases would have to be assessed individually.
MyWheels also acknowledges that it cannot necessarily determine on its own whether an incident was caused by FSD or by a driver who failed to intervene in time. Tesla, insurers, or independent experts may need to analyze the available data.
Shared cars create new problems
One particularly interesting issue is Tesla’s “strikeout” system. FSD can temporarily be disabled after repeated warnings for driver inattentiveness. In a privately owned car, those warnings apply to a single driver or household. In a shared car, several unrelated users can accumulate warnings on the same vehicle.
MyWheels admits this is an unresolved operational question and says it is exactly the kind of issue the pilot is intended to explore.
The same applies to safety monitoring. MyWheels says it will gather qualitative feedback and monitor the impact of FSD on damage claims. For now, it is not committing to systematically analyzing disengagements, driver-monitoring warnings or near misses.
And the futuristic scenario in which a shared car drives itself to the next customer remains much further away. MyWheels concedes that a car traveling on public roads without anyone behind the wheel falls into a completely different legal and technical category.
So the experiment may prove valuable, but perhaps for a different reason than the headline suggests. The first lesson from MyWheels’ “self-driving” car-sharing project could be that today’s most advanced driving automation remains highly dependent on the human behind the wheel.
