Public safety advocacy groups say that Tesla's partially automated driving systems have safety problems. Tesla sells its cars with a standard Autopilot package, or a premium "Full Self-Driving" option, also known as FSD or FSD supervised, in the U.S. Vehicles with these systems, which include features such as automatic lane keeping, steering and parking, have been involved in hundreds of collisions, including dozens of fatalities, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. Tesla's robotaxis are equipped with a future release of Tesla's FSD software. That "unsupervised" FSD technology is not yet available to the public. Several groups in Austin on Thursday protested the upcoming robotaxi pilot launch and Musk's involvement in the Trump administration. The Dawn Project, a technology safety group critical of Tesla's FSD abilities, demonstrated a safety situation using a Model Y equipped with the currently available software. In the FSD demonstration, the Model Y drove past a stopped school bus with its stop sign out and struck a child-sized mannequin that was pulled in front of the moving car, simulating a child running across the street to catch the bus. Dawn Project founder Dan O'Dowd also runs Green Hills Software, which sells technology to Tesla competitors. Read the full BI story here. — CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report. Also on CNBC