The year of the birth of the “Echoes”, in 1908, the young Anonimous society Automobiles Peugeot launched the production of the Type 91, followed twenty years later by the Type 190 S, which marked the end of the wood frame bodies. What evolution!
Twenty years after the launch of the Peugeot 508 at the Paris Motor Show, Peugeot is launching its second generation of autonomous highway mobility objects in 2038. What a revolution!
The useful time
The mutation of the automobile species has accelerated with a quarter of sales made with a level 5 autonomy since 2035, because a growing notion has replaced the travel time: the useful time. We do not necessarily want to travel always faster, we travel better in the sense of the use of his travel time. However, my mobility object is running at 230 km / h on its dedicated motorway route in conditions of optimal safety, made possible thanks to the autonomous driving system that I decided to activate to get to my competition. electric sports cars.
Work and “cat”
I had great pleasure talking to passengers that my Free2Move app identified based on trip criteria and interests. I had never had the opportunity to talk so much with another driver and a motorsport fan, between two sessions of work on my holographic tablet and the viewing of the 3D circuit with augmented reality, which allowed me to to refine my trajectories.
Freedom of movement
How could I have imagined, in this year 2038, that mobility brings such added value, even though it was threatened some twenty years ago by certain irrational decisions? Fortunately, the chain reactions of many stakeholders have been beneficial in upholding the fundamental principle of our freedom of movement: some NGOs who have fought against discrimination linked to urban mobility increasingly elitist and based on criteria of sorting selective economic; the inhabitants of rural territories who have struggled for the equality of all citizens in the face of the desertification of mobility, setting off certain populations; or union fights for the safeguarding of employment in a sector of activity that represented twenty years ago more than 6% of the European workforce and had to reinvent itself without taboos; finally, the mobilization of the scientific community, which has succeeded in imposing a rational approach to the energy transition applied to the transport of people and goods.
A strong techno content
It is today that we can measure the decisive contribution of all those actors of civil society who have anchored mobility in our fundamental rights, by writing the equation of sustainable mobility to three factors: environmental , Economic and Social. Because consumers were right to never compromise on the safety, comfort and the carbon footprint of travel, the high-tech automobile still figures in 2038 in a good position in the panorama of the mobility offer multimodal.
Self-mobility
I never doubted for a moment that the thirst for mobility, expressed by citizens who grew up in democracies, makes institutional decision-makers understand the fundamental respect for their freedom of movement, whether shared or individual. in a world that has just passed the 9 billion inhabitants who all aspire to hypertrophied “auto-mobility” on the five continents.
It’s all the greatness of humanity and all the genius of the automobile industry, sorry … for self-mobility, to have surpassed its conservative attitudes, to make sometimes unpopular decisions and finally reinvent themselves in the space of two decades. The steps of progress have been considerable and it is in the adversity that the imagination without taboo was expressed for those who decided to apply Darwinism as early as 2018, twenty years ago already! Evolve or disappear, there was no other alternative and I am happy that the sportsmanship that I instilled into the company that I had the privilege of leading still endures …
Carlos Tavares is “Prospectivist” Chairman of the PSA Group Executive Board