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11 AutoData | March 2019 will have to migrate. It is not bad news because people have to understand that the world is changing very fast, and that also involves the engineer and it’s part of the engineering culture. We can’t say that Anfavea, AEA, Sindipeças and the government will find a solution to keep those one hundred in our market. There are several associations of the segment in Brazil, such as AEA, SAE Brasil, IQA... Taking advantage of that moment of change which you refer to, wouldn’t it be time for them to join or work in the same direction? I do not see conflict or competition, even if we promote events and so do they. I think it is important that the professionals have access to varied opinions from di- fferent associations. But, yes, I do think we can sit down and discuss works in the same direction, synchronized. Isn’t that too little? In twenty years our fleet will not be mostly consisted by electric cars... Wewill have a migration, it may be 50%- 50%, 60%-40%. It is part of the global economy. But the industry will be to- tally different in twenty years from now, that migration does not mean that the Brazilian engineering will end, but that it will change. If you reduce the volume of work in the proving ground, the engi- neer will not be unemployed, he or she will be doing other things. Let’s analyze: during the whole process of Rota 2030 and nowwith Industry 4.0 it was said, and will be said, that automation reduces the number of jobs. The changewill happen, and the challenge for the engineering professionals is to understand that they need to get ready for those changes. And do that from the moment they receive their diploma. Engineering does not end, it changes and it transforms. What about thosewho are alreadyout of the market? Is there any way to return? It’s not easy. Today, the professions in the human relations area are more disputed than the exact sciences ares, it is the profile of the new generation. There is, therefore, a lower number of peoplewho will look for the automotive area, of the mobility, and we only see news of one company firing people and another one transferring the engineering to another country. Our job here is to get closer to the university, to show that the area is interesting. It is something that needs to be done and it doesn’t happen over- night. But the return is a more complex question becausewe don’t control tech- nology, it comes and runs over us. It’s a huge challenge for a 40, 50, 60-year-old person to keep up to date and compete with another person that was born virtu- ally connected and that’s why it’s forcing that technology change. The world is changing, of one hundred people who are graduated and want to stay in the area thirtywill be successful and seventy