IIHS: Top-rated Headlights Linked to Lower Nighttime Crash Rates

A study by IIHS, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that headlights that score higher in a rating program are linked to lower nighttime crash rates.The study released last week found that nighttime crash rates/km are about 20% lower for vehicles with headlights that score “good” in the IIHS rating compared to those with…

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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.