In ramping up robotaxi service, Tesla is hoping to slingshot past Waymo, another autonomous car service that operates in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, according to its website. Last week, Waymo applied for a permit to test its vehicles in New York City.

The long-promised launch of Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin is scheduled for June 22, and it sounds like the company's initial offering will be modest at best. The Financial Times writes that Tesla will only have around 10 cars available for rides and that the company plans to make them "avoid the city’s most challenging intersections.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicated on social media that the launch of the company's robotaxi service in Austin was tentatively set for this weekend. Here's what we know.

Tesla will launch its highly anticipated robotaxi service on June 22, but rides won't be fully driverless as Elon Musk promised. Instead, each trip will have a human "safety monitor" sitting in the front passenger seat.

U.S. highway safety regulators are reviewing answers Tesla gave in response to the agency's questions about the safety of its self-driving robotaxi in poor weather, the agency said on Friday, ahead of plans to deploy the vehicles as soon as this weekend.

"Tesla is rolling out the Robotaxi service extremely cautiously, which is good. Baby steps," posted Omar Qazi, an X.com user with 635,100 followers who posts often about Tesla usi