Tesla has told California regulators it plans to expand a chartered passenger-car service across the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a filing acknowledged on Friday by the California Public Utilities Commission. The notice follows an internal memo, reported by Business Insider, that said the company hoped to invite select Tesla owners to use what it called a “robotaxi” service as early as this weekend. The CPUC stressed that Tesla lacks the permits needed to carry members of the public in autonomous vehicles and therefore must operate with a human driver in control at all times. “Tesla is not allowed to test or transport the public (paid or unpaid) in an AV with or without a driver,” the agency told Reuters. The California DMV added that Tesla holds only a drivered-testing permit, which does not allow it to collect fares or run driverless cars. On Wednesday’s earnings call, Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and AI lead Ashok Elluswamy said the company was seeking approval to launch robotaxis in the Bay Area and other U.S. markets, but would initially keep a person in the driver’s seat. A similar pilot using about a dozen Model Y sport-utility vehicles has been operating in Austin, Texas, since 22 June with a safety monitor riding along. The conflicting signals—Tesla’s marketing of the service as autonomous while regulators insist it is not—underline the regulatory hurdles the carmaker still faces in its shift from selling vehicles to offering ride-hailing services. Unlike Alphabet’s Waymo, which spent nine years securing seven separate California approvals before charging for fully driverless rides, Tesla has not yet applied for the next tier of CPUC or DMV autonomous-vehicle permits.