I’m happy to be here because
here this strasbourg to the excesses a
city that has liberated is a life
who freed herself she free herself from
what first city in France to have
pedestrianize its city center from
70s
first city in France to have
reintroduces the tramway as early as
90 first city in France the place du
bike in his daily life
in fact first city in France to
see his city center free from its
cars and have asked this question
to its inhabitants a question wants
provocatively finally can you you
move from your car
can you do without your
car
we’re going to do a poll is what those
who in the room do not have cars
can please raise your hand
ok so I have not everything but there is a
good news and there is a worse
new law designed by the good
new
the good news is that there is when
even a lot of hands that get up
and that what it shows is what we
read in the reports it’s true it’s
that here more than elsewhere we use the
bike to get around here less
that elsewhere we use the car for
to move were even making themselves one
newspapers a few days ago and
despite this there is also good
new is that even here at
strasbourg
even in this recognized laboratory
everywhere in europe for its progress in
terms of mobility
even here there are a lot of hands that do not
do not get up and basically deep down I
understand because objectively if you
are in brumath
but it’s also not easy to
to live without his car and dedicate himself
funds those who did not raise their hands
here and blends into the region in France
everywhere and the statistics ine
hit his seven French out of 10 who
said he could not live not
to be able to do without their car
I do not know about you but me it’s me
and hit me the words have a meaning do not
not be able to do without
me it evokes drawings evoke the
dependence it reminds me of the addiction
a bit like if our car was
become a member of a little more
bulky and this is the case in France
but everywhere eventually in the world and
so that today we have 2
billion vehicles on the planet
me and it challenges me I the
ask but it ‘s going to cost how much
it costs China and it costs and
how much is it today
for my society for my community
but also for my life to me is the
first shot but it’s obviously this
that happens when they use this
car is stress and time
spent in the car in the
jams
it’s congestion and pollution me
I will make you a confidence I
always been very sensitive to the issues
environmental issues but eventually I
recently realized that
it was a little conceptual in approach
I saw the jt on tf1 and france 2 and
I saw these city images archi
pollute with people who wander
with a mask and I said but
I hope someday if I have children
they will not come and a mask is
a bit like that I approached but
deep inside me at the bottom me there is a
little voice that told me worried alex
tai in France and it’s not here and
now that the urgency was going
pregnant
it’s long and I talked about it with a friend
because he too had a little bit of that
conceptual approach and he stopped
to have two are made up the day
where he moved he lived boulevard
magenta in full paris to some
minutes walk from the North Station very
bottled for those who know
and he had moved to the suburbs to
Boulogne He said to me, it’s funny
because as if by chance of playing
tomorrow I have more need to take you
my kids at the doctor at three
by month as by chance
overnight I am more
tired when I come back after
job and I have some energy for
to do things when I come back from
job and in fact I told myself in
listening to meiway today we talk
no masks there tonight a priori
nobody between us to wear
masks though it’s fine here and
now and in our convoy bodies
the first of the facts he the worst game
Well, we’re talking about 4% of
problems at 4%
I’m going to do two surveys but it’s
anyway to become guessing what
it can be 4% 4% it’s the rate
of use of our car
we buy car we spend
a lot we’ll talk about it later and we’ll
uses an hour a day 4% and the
twenty three hours
you have to do something dirty
car then we train in london
it’s 20% of the urban real estate space
which is used for places of
parking really build towers
sas in chicago yeah you build some
tours to host cars etc
but this patient’s but these time
lost
this is the movie you missed
beginning because instead of being
comfortably installed in your
cinema chair you were driving
of your car to make rounds in
the city to look for a place of
car park
and since we talk because we talk about
blows but I ask you to finish by
the addition and she’s salty she’s
salted the addition
because it was full of little blows
what are these lamentations of the vehicle
it’s the insurance it’s summer bread
and I do not want to believe one person
it would tell me they did not
had trouble with his vehicle in the
Last 12 months and all that is 6000
euros a year for something we
use 4 % of the time so despite that
despite this stress this congestion this
pollution
this time this money I do not know for
you but I have the impression that we
in France but everywhere in the
world
we love our car we have a link
almost emotional with other cars
I’m sure in this room there is
even who gives him a little name
then car
and rest assured I do not want you
ask to raise your hand I do not want
to make you feel uncomfortable and this link
emotional it has been a long time
it’s been a long time was rational because
that it was freedom
it was I can leave here
now and some displacements
that I can not do in transportation in
common
I can do it with my car
it was true for a long time I am
convinced that it is more true
today 20 years ago and a new
object that was coming into our pockets
so for me it was a bit of a dream
it was the gleaming nokia 33 10 and
throw a lot of things with I can
make phone calls and sometimes I
plays a snake was better than my
friends I reassure you I do a little more
of things today with my
cellphone I use it for
work to listen to music
to reserve a restaurant sometimes
sometimes even on the page on the near
apparently to make phone calls
and since a short time to order
a car with driver
I want to go to the restaurant I go out my
phone day the application a click
and a car comes in a few
minutes I’m late an appointment
important
a click a car comes looking for and
I go there his stress and his clique there he
lets do a lot of things
it allows us to tell the application
hello I am alexander I am at 1
place dauphine in Strasbourg and I want
go as fast as possible to brumath
at the telephone number it is at 06 75
88 20 54 to the blue card number it’s
the good game that not give you you
know that I have a good payer and I have a
good note and the application she me
responds very well
it is noted it is noted a car
happens in a few minutes it’s a box
weekend passat syria a hair
professional comes to lead her and he has
a very good rating users
this dialogue
there is place on a screen in less than one
half a second in much less time than
I needed it to describe it
and he triggers a virtuous circle
this virtuous circle is what it is
simple and we love simplicity more
of users more drivers so
a better mesh – long-awaited for
more users still use
more drivers for drivers
less time out between each race
for users a service
always so reliable for
drivers more income for them
passengers it’s always cheaper and
finally a credible alternative to the
individual car
I was seven thousand young is who and
with whom we discuss and precisely I
had to present the first time this
application because I actually there is
four years after six years in finance at
London
I changed course in my life
professional and I joined the
carry
I joined a kind up that you like
which he still calls über do we
was trying to do it was
develop an app like that
so I have my role actually my role
to me was to launch in Europe at
Middle East Africa I’m a lot
amused and I traveled a lot I got
Am a lot of doubts about a way
polite to tell you that I’ve never
took as many jackets in as few
time because wherever I came
in a new city what is being done
it was the same
I arrived I presented the service
what were you saying yeah that’s not bad it’s
not bad but that honestly not not
here not here at best at best you
will come to serve people who want
return from the evening and it’s true that
beginning it was mostly a service that
was talking to the night owls for what you
want to come back from the evening and
progressively as more than that he
could not use to move that
used to go to the doctor
that he used to bring their
kids at school actually they
just used it as my
used their own car had
to come back to this lionel friend
explain to me precisely that there was
planted his car so thankfully
fortunately without bodily injury
he said you I did calculations at
background i want to sell buy
I need to buy one because
Public transport makes 80%
travel and for the 20%
remaining but I order a car
with driver one day the other day I
rent a car from an individual
the third day ben i share a
journey a little long distance and
finally I’m doing very well there
said alex do you do this list this
whore list that lists you all
journeys where you think you need
of your car
I made this list is still
today I have not found one
one of those occasions when that’s
cell phone that’s not the
do I still have not found a
single household has recently jeans
my new apartment with my wife or
white metro in paris we want
move our furniture
I go out my phone to click and I
rent a car that is two blocks away
of houses less than a quarter of an hour
after flying show and I looked for
furniture i want to wedding a good friend
school three months ago that 100 km from
paris i go to orleans
orleans is someone waiting for him on
the platform of the station is Eric Eric this is
who eric is in particular that I have
encountered by a rental site of
particular to particular
there are some great notes from
people who have the misfortune his car his
car and really does not run big
thing and besides it’s hyper soup is
now at the train station
I took the car so I make myself
click and because his car was
striped in all directions but
honestly it was largely the
sphere tomorrow you want to go to
work out there for once I think
that we are well served with
public transport they are down
you can go there by bike
too cold like today you can
order a car with driver
it’s too expensive it’s a car with
driver you can share it with
another user
in fact we realized at
schaeffer is that there was a lot
trips that took place at the same time
on the same route to ask
are we may share
can we merge them
journey we created something that
recalls hubert push give you a
example tomorrow you stand for
the star and you want to go station
from the east
you take out your phone one click
someone happens the driver is
behind sophie
a passenger she does not want the train station
the is I just want to go to the opera
but it’s on the way you
drop you dream a few minutes
after it’s comfortable it’s a little
longer is especially very affordable
did not raise prices and that for me
this technology and only shows that there
is there we are there and that’s the beginning
is that the beginning my name but we are
numerous
we are many it’s more than a bubble
there are many nothing for a
application as butter this is a
million and a half of French but if
you take the whole ecosystem and there
a lot of offers are
several million French
today they use that does not
did not you it’s not you it was
the neighbor maybe your cousin it’s
maybe this friend who is still not
the driver’s license is there who you
said good to it’s time there being everything
moved a little what but basically this
friend who does not have a driver’s license
let’s take a closer look is what it is
really less book than you is this
that he is really less the prowess
which really does less than
you this friend is what makes it his true
luck is that is actually the books
because he is not trapped by his
emotions his conditionings that we
we created with our first reports
with our car
did not know him the satisfaction of
hold that steering wheel the first time when
he drove his first car he has
not experienced the emotion of having his
first keys to the shot but eventually
he may be more book then as soon
that we talk about driver’s license me this
we often say that’s true but
honestly it’s mostly for the
city centers it’s true at the beginning
it was mostly for the city center
that was the map of our
cover in 2012 today it has
a lot of power to give you
the example of betting within 80
kilometers that’s going to serve him
recently i was in brussels i
go back to thalys i get a text message from
my wife I phone you I
look at the application there are four
cars within 8 minutes of my
position I am in the suburbs of
Compiègne 80 km from Paris
then there is also a small side a little
reassuring I have 100 they are there his
keys we never know 2 if I have to leave
there here now but I can that I
understand very well
sam need to control
and I changed my mind a little
compared to this need to control
since the excellent my brother we are in
March 2015
he lives in london we are in the night and
there a domestic accident a little m
always is he losing a lot of
blood in the arm so much sense that he
is forced to go down the street
to make sure that if ever he falls
in the apples will laura someone for
to help someone who passes fac is
looked at common sense the fact it’s
spectacular
he takes out his phone a click and
take him in three minutes to help
finally it went very well
it’s about ten stitches
but not too visible
it’s more a big fright and me that
showed that maybe his keys
trust is more reliable because
that it will be hard maybe
that today they provide us with a
little less freedom than what we have here
in our phone then there we get
said it’s a bit big anyway to get
to say is what we really see succeed
tomorrow have city centers without
individual cars
it’s true that it looks a bit big
anyway and I have almost trouble
to figure it out
so when an example very very closely
from here I asked you to follow me
we will go back then
close your eyes you are in Strasbourg
in the 70’s and you’re at
flying a simca I take a car
that no longer exists like that there is no
jealous you are rue des grands
arcades you tumble you arrive on
the place kléber than what you see
open your eyes a giant parking lot and a
roundabout that was the place kléber
not so long ago
tomorrow we do the same walk you
come across one of the most
pleasant of the city with
terraces with fountains and especially
in law we can come and have fun and
have a good time
I am convinced that today
made in 2017 place kléber one can
add hundreds and
thousands all over the country I convinced
that we can do it and that’s our
scope
so that’s for sure I’m coming a little
with my approach with my ladder with
but with my examples with my life
finally and I think we all have
different configurations
know for sure i’m sure that in the
room did objectively if tomorrow if
Tomorrow he had more cars but
objectively he could do less of
things and that I think we can
ask anyone but we talk about the
list just now the list of all
the journeys we say we’re like today
I want to do it with my car
I remain convinced that art in
all those who did not raise their hands if
we redo this list now I am
convinced that in fact with that we are
pulls very well
we may not need a secret
in our pockets thank you very much
[Applause]
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