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Worldwide demand for light vehicles is expected to decline about 9% to 56.1 million units this year from 61.5 million units in 2008,
Hella announced last week they will produce a new range of highly economical and accurate digital sensors in late 2009 for select vehicles of a U.S. automaker.
Texas Instruments (TI) are well known for their DLP optical switching technology, which uses an array of micromirrors to manipulate light emission. Development kits allow scientists and engineers to incorporate the technology into their own optical systems.
Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Mobis’ sales for 2008 have increased by 10% over 2007 figures, to US$7bn. The company have also reported a 40% jump in their profit to US$860m and a rise of 44% in operating profit at US$940m.
Philips has halved the valuation of their Lumileds subsidiary, blaming the global economic downturn and an uncertain outlook for its LED products.
Mitsubishi say they’re stopping all cross-country motorsport programmes in the wake of the global financial slump.
Citroën will unveil this week a global re-branding initiative that introduces a new, “near-premium” product line and calls for wide-ranging changes across their 3,300-dealer global network.
BMW Group design chief Chris Bangle is leaving BMW and the automotive industry ‘in order to pursue his own design-related endeavors’
LRC research is sponsored by NHTSA, Philips, AL, GE, GM, Hella, Osram-Sylvania, Philips-Lumiled and Visteon. Bullough gave a high-class presentation about glare at the DELRIS congress (see picture below).
Driving Vision News: You said that after studying roadway glare for two years, your rough prototype blocks a measured slice of an auto’s light beam projecting into the other lane. What do you mean?
John Bullough: The researchresults were published in the NHTSA report “Investigation of Safety-Based Advanced Forward-Lighting Concepts to Reduce Glare.”
The module we used in our tests was not fundamentally different in concept to those such as the “segmented shutter” design described by Shadeed, Wallaschek and Mojrzisch (2007) from the University of Paderborn or the variable cutoff line described by Decker, Himmler and Amsel (2007) from Hella, or similar ideas from other manufacturers.
DVN: Who is the initiator of this work?
J.B.: This work is funded by $890,000 from the NHTSA. Glare is believed to be a major reason the traffic fatality rate is about three times higher at night.
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