Turo will let renters filter for Teslas with Full Self-Driving

Turo is an online marketplace where car owners rent out their cars to travelers. The owners are called hosts. Think of it as a spare-room site, but for the car in your driveway.

Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y are already the third and fourth most popular cars on Turo this year, according to the company. So the hosts who have them are in a good position to add one more selling point.

Turo will show which Teslas on the platform have Full Self-Driving (Supervised), often shortened to FSD. Renters will be able to filter for those cars. Hosts can also advertise their cars as "Self-Driving" in their listings, TechCrunch reports.

Here is what the two outlets say about the rollout:

• Start date: October 28, for US renters, according to Electrek.
• Host trial: Eligible hosts get a free one-month trial of the software.
• Listings: Turo says "thousands" of FSD-enabled Teslas are already listed, Electrek reports.
• Warnings: Renters will see cautionary language that tells them to watch the software and be ready to take over.
• Tutorial: Renters can also view a tutorial made by Tesla.

In real life Say you land in Phoenix for a long weekend. Instead of a plain rental sedan, you filter for a Tesla with FSD, pick one up, and see how the car handles a highway drive. You still hold the wheel the whole time.

Hosts link their Tesla account to Turo. Turo then checks each car's software status through Tesla's API. An API is a doorway that lets one company's system ask another company's system a question and get an answer.

TechCrunch says Turo is working with Tesla to reach that API directly. That matters because a host can't simply type "yes, it has FSD" into a listing. The check comes from Tesla's side.

For renters, Turo has not said. For hosts, the first month is free. After that, it's Tesla's regular subscription, which Electrek says is $99 a month.

Electrek notes that hosts will probably want to earn that money back through their daily rates. Turo didn't say whether FSD listings will cost more. So for now, watch the listing price before you book.

Tesla has been pushing hard to get more people to use FSD. Electrek says the company went subscription-only with the software in February. It has also offered a free one-year subscription on new Model 3 and Model Y orders.

By the numbers: Tesla said last week that around 1.7 million customers have paid for FSD, out of more than 10 million cars built and sold so far, TechCrunch reports. Electrek puts Tesla's active FSD subscriptions in the third quarter at 1.74 million.

Tesla also said that more than 75% of customers who took delivery of a car in North America during the third quarter paid for FSD, TechCrunch reports. That was roughly a 20% increase from the second quarter. For the wider earnings picture, see our story on Tesla's third-quarter profit.

Tesla's finance chief Vaibhav Taneja said on the earnings call that customers are walking in and asking for an FSD drive. They are not asking for a Model 3, a Model Y or a Cybertruck.

Electrek explains that Tesla started sharing the active-subscription number because Elon Musk's 2025 CEO Performance Award uses it. One of the award's milestones is 10 million subscriptions.

At last quarter's pace, Electrek calculates, Tesla would need about eight more years to get there. Free trials don't count toward the number, but paid subscriptions do. So a Turo host who keeps paying after the free month adds to the count.

Why it matters: A renter who enjoys the weekend could turn into a subscriber later. That is a much longer test drive than 15 minutes with a salesperson, as Electrek puts it.

No, and the companies say so themselves. FSD (Supervised) is a "level 2" driver assistance system. That means the car can steer, brake and speed up, but the person in the driver's seat is responsible at all times.

Turo's own press materials lean on words like "self-driving" and "driverless." Turo cites research that 55% of Americans are interested in driverless technology for travel, rising to 71% among Gen Z. Yet its CEO, Andre Haddad, also calls FSD "driver's assistance technology" in the same release, Electrek notes.

The catch: Electrek points out that Turo didn't say who pays if a guest crashes with FSD engaged. It could be the renter, the host or Turo's protection plans. Electrek also says Turo's main safeguard is to encourage guests to read Tesla's documentation before pickup.

Electrek adds that Tesla dropped the "Full Self-Driving" name in Europe after pressure from German regulators, while the US name stays. Its editor worries that a first-time user might treat the car like a chauffeur.

Turo's chief executive called it an "industry-first integration with Tesla." Electrek says that is a generous claim, because Tesla has rented out its own cars with FSD included in Southern California since last year.

The new part is the verification. Turo is a third-party marketplace with far more cars in far more cities, and every listing gets its FSD status checked at the source.

Electrek calls the Turo deal basically a "Tesla Network" that is still supervised. Since 2016, Elon Musk has said Tesla owners would one day add their cars to a Tesla Network, giving rides to others and earning income.

Electrek says that vision has been delayed for years. The best Tesla can do right now is combine Turo and FSD. In this version, the renter drives and the owner earns the rental fee.

The feature starts on October 28, so the first real data will be how many renters actually search for it. Turo hasn't said how it will handle pricing, liability or extra training. Those are the answers to watch.

• If you rent cars: From October 28 you can look for a Tesla with FSD and try it for a weekend. Read Tesla's safety guidelines before you drive off.
• If you own a Tesla: You can list your car as self-driving and get a free month of FSD. Plan for the $99 a month after that.
• If you're curious about FSD: Check the listing price and the damage rules first. Turo hasn't said how crashes with FSD on are handled.
• Always: Keep your hands ready and your eyes on the road. The software is supervised, and you are the supervisor.