AUSTIN (KXAN) --- In less than a week, people might see Tesla robotaxis riding around Austin. The company reportedly planned to launch its autonomous vehicle ride hailing service Thursday, June 12.

Still, a federal agency has several questions about the safety of the vehicles.

Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed plans with CNBC to launch the service in Austin.

"We want to deliberately take it slow," Musk said. "I mean, we could start with 1,000 [robotaxis] 10,000 on day one, but I don't think that would be prudent. So we will start with probably 10 for a week, then increase it to 20, 30, 40."

Musk himself mentioned testing already started. Just last week, he posted on X that, "for the past several days, Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Y cars (no one in driver's seat) on

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