Koito will buy USD $50m worth of additional shares in Cepton Technologies, a US startup who design, manufacture, and sell lidar for ADAS and AD. Cepton say their Micro Motion Technology lidar has long product life due to its frictionless actuator, and that it outperforms other companies’ products in terms of monitoring distance and angular…
Hector Fratty
Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.