SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla is reported to have had plans to rollout a robotaxi service in San Francisco as early as this weekend. But state officials say they are not permitted to do such a thing and haven't even applied for a permit.

Tesla, Elon Musk 's company, notified the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday that they intended to extend their Transportation Charter Permit to (TCP) to offer service to family and friends of employees as well as select members of the public.

Business Insider reported that California's Department of Motor Vehicles met with Tesla representatives, but that that company has not yet applied for a permit to test driverless cars, nor the deployment of autonomous vehicles.

The DMV regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehi

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