The two pro-teams who make it to the world final, are actually going to see the trunk alongside everybody else for the very first time at the press conference at the Eiffel Tower on November 8th.
The Eiffel Tower and the river boats, not far from there the Sacre-Coeur, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre Museum all closed, not to mention restaurants and cafes.
Gustave Eiffel, a bridge builder who designed the tower also had in the creation of another Parisian landmark, what's known as the world's first department store.
Our co-pilots today are engineers developing the technology that's already being sold to car markets, and where better to start than at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
The 42-year-old Frenchman has scaled scores of well-known structures around the world including the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Towe, often without permission or any safety equipment or ropes.
The Eiffel Tower and a number of Paris museums and markets will be shut on Saturday amid fears of further street violence involving the yellow vest protest movement.