Electric car maker Tesla will launch an automated taxi service in San Francisco, California, this weekend, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider.

According to the memo, the company has sped up its timeline for launching the service, a version of which has already been released in Austin, Texas, and will soon send out invitations to some Tesla owners in the Bay Area.

San Francisco already has autonomous taxis from Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, that are completely driverless, but Tesla’s service will have a human seated in the driver’s seat to monitor for safety.

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