The Ministry of Transport, which is actively developing the area of autonomous mobility, has decided to set up an Ethics Committee to assess issues related to the operation of automated and autonomous vehicles in the Czech Republic. Its goal is to comprehensively assess the issues of ethics and related topics in the field of automated and autonomous vehicles in the Czech Republic. David Černý is the chairman of the committee and the leading experts in the field of ethics, law, social sciences, artificial intelligence and technical fields are the other twelve members.
The safety of autonomous vehicles, their development and testing was high on the agenda during the bilateral negotiations between the transportation minister Dan Ťok and the US Transportation Ministry. The minister attended the meeting during his visit to the USA. Road traffic safety and sharing of experience with the construction of transportation infrastructure were among the other topics discussed.