Almaty designates over 120 street sections for driverless car testing

The Almaty akimat has adopted a resolution designating test sites and public road routes for vehicles with conditional and high levels of driving automation. In total, more than 120 street sections have been allocated in the city for the pilot project, the website infohub.kz reports.

The document was adopted in accordance with Resolution No. 300dsp of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 20, 2026, "On Certain Issues of the Use of Vehicles with Conditional and High Levels of Driving Automation," and paragraph 4 of the Rules for Implementing the Pilot Project on the Introduction of Vehicles with Conditional and High Levels of Driving Automation. The said rules were approved by a joint order of the Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 31, 2026, No. 442/NQ; the Acting Minister of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 29, 2026, No. 196; and the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated August 4, 2026, No. 550.

Under the resolution, a test site has been designated in the Almaly district of Almaty, along with public road routes for the pilot project on the introduction of vehicles with conditional and high levels of driving automation, in accordance with the annex to the resolution.

The municipal state institution "Almaty City Digitalization Department" has been instructed, in the manner established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to ensure that an electronic copy of the resolution in Kazakh and Russian is sent to the Republican State Enterprise on the Right of Economic Management "Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan" under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan for official publication and inclusion in the Reference Control Bank of Regulatory Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This must be done within five working days of the signing of the resolution.

In addition, the institution must post the resolution on the Almaty akimat's website after its official publication.

Control over the implementation of the resolution has been assigned to the supervising deputy akim of Almaty. The document itself enters into force ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication.