Exposé idée de progrès

Exposé:

Hello, today I’m going to try to illustrate the notion “Idea of progress”. To illustrate this

notion I’ve chosen technical way. I’ll talk about the car and more precisely its history.

Nowadays it seems banal but in 1771 the first car was something incredible.

The first self-propelled mechanical vehicle used steam power to move. It don’t really

look like modern cars but during the twenty eighth century a mechanical vehicle moving itself

was an unreal progress.

The problem with steam motorisation is that it’s not really adapted to the road. So the

german Karl Benz invented a car with a thermal motorisation. His wife Bertha Benz, to prove

that his husband’s innovation is useful, maked a long distance car trip. Sir Benz is

considered as the inventor of modern car.

Now I’ll talk about mass production established by Henry Ford. It’s an innovation in

the way of car production. Car can be produced in huge quantity, cheaper and faster than

earlier. It still to be a way of production of commun cars nowadays.

Today cars respond to many security an esthetics rules. It’s the most used means of

transport in the world. With the huge quantity of cars on the road problems appeared. First of all car is a mean of transport which need a lot of places but cities are not adapted. Visibles

effects are traffic jams. The second problem is pollution. Oil make many pollution like CO2 or

micro-particles. The solution about traffic jams is making car parc outside cities and serve

citie’s center by commons transports. One of the solution about pollution is to use another

power like electricity. The problem with that new energy is that if it would be a clean power

electricity had to be made by green energy. Nowadays the problem that we have with

electric cars, is that we don’t really know how to reclaim cars and more precisely batteries.

In the future, cars had to make less pollution. About technical innovations, cars may

become autonomous and more secured for the user.

Sources:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#History

...