An electrostatic discharge system for a road vehicle including an
electrically conducting conductor element in electrical contact with an
electrically conducting part of the vehicle body, an actuator mountable
to the vehicle and adapted for selectively and reversibly moving the
conductor element between a deployed position and a retracted position,
and a controller operatively connected to the actuator and to a user
interface and adapted for controlling operation of the actuator
responsive to an interaction with the user interface, wherein in the
deployed position the conductor element is in contact with the ground
such as to provide an electrical pathway for electric charge from the
electrically conducting part of the vehicle body to the ground, and
wherein in the retracted position the conductor element is distanced from
the ground such as to interrupt the electrical pathway.