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Renault’s Board of Directors have reëlected Carlos Ghosn as Chairman and CEO for a four-year period, following the renewal of his directorship at the Annual General
Visteon have announced first-quarter net income of US$233m on product sales of US$1.85bn. Visteon’s Chairman, CEO and President Donald Stebbins says “Increased global vehicle production,
Q&A with Nils Haferkemper, DUT Darmstadt
DVN: I was very surprised by your experiments which show almost no influence of switching low beam. How do explain we are using these features on motorcycles for so many years?
I do not know the historical background, because it is just accessible in detail from protocols, but my opinion is that in the end it was a simple solution and it is pretty comprehensible that switching on the low beam during daytime was assumed to increase conspicuity. From the literature I was not able to find any field test leading to this consequence.
DVN: How do you explain the great different on visibility distance between low beam and LED DRLs? Is it because the shape, the illuminance on the eye, the colour of the light or is there any other reason?
The major advantage to low beam is the extremely high luminance of the DRLs.
This is what mainly contributes to the observed effects. Of course the colour is new to most road users, but the German federal highway research institute (BASt) found out in a static experiment that there is no significant effect of colour in conspicuity. Also from the physiological side this can be neglected. It is not sure which influence the shape has because that was not a point of research for us, but it would be interesting to have a study about that!
DVN: Don’t you think there would be a big confusion between motorcycles and cars if they are equipped with the same lights?
Hyundai Mobis have opened a logistics centre in Alexandria, Eygpt to meet growing demand for components in Africa.
OLED lighting device patent filings are growing rapidly with more than 90% appearing since 2000, according to the latest OLED Lighting: A Review of the Patent Landscape report.
Before joining Toyota in 1994, Simon Humphries had virtually no experience in vehicle design. And instead of injecting Toyota with a major dose of foreign perspective, Humphries is by
Robert Bosch and Nissan coöperatively developed the “Connect” multimedia system for a number of different vehicles in the Nissan model range, including the Cube, Micra, and Note.
Philips’ reported first-quarter 2010 sales are up 18% to total €5.7bn . Gerard Kleisterlee, President and CEO of Philips Electronics, calls the lighting division’s growth “impressive”,
The ITS specialist Iteris and Prime—a refrigerated, flatbed, and tanker truck fleet based in the U.S. state of Missouri—have announced that four years’ worth of data show Iteris
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