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Hector Fratty
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Pain in the Glass: €1.4bn Collusion Fines
The European Commission has imposed fines totalling €1.4bn on car glass manufacturers Asahi, Pilkington, Saint-Gobain, and Soliver for illegal market sharing and exchange of commercially sensitive information.
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DPCA Citroën 5 On Sale Soon in China
Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile (DPCA) have recently finished building their second plant and launched their high-end Platform 3. The first model to be built on this platform is the Citroën 5, to go on offer early next year.
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European October new-car sales down 14.5%
European new-car registrations suffered their second biggest fall of the year in October. They were at 1.13 million units down 14.5% last month compared with October 2007.
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Five VISION Papers Selected
Five papers from VISION 2008 have been selected by the organizing committee; the first three will be published in the next SIA magazine, with the other two to follow:
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New E-Plant for Hella
Hella have inaugurated their first electronics plant in Mexico at San José Iturbide. The plant will make pedal sensors and vacuum and washer pumps for the company’s Asian and North American automotive customers.
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“Optical Flow” for Driver Assistance Imaging
At the Electronica 2008 Conference, Xilinx Inc. released their Xilinx Automotive (XA) Optical Flow solution for vision-based driver assistance systems.
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Valeo Vision System Orders for OmniVision
Image sensor specialist OmniVision Technologies have won multiple design contracts for their AutoVision line of CMOS image sensors with Valeo.
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