Market trends are pushing relentlessly toward very thin lamps, and Valeo have been responding with a spate of innovations: Ultra-Thin Lens, which won a Chinese Gasgoo award, is a new range of modules just 15 mm high. The first one in production is on the Great Wall Haval Shenshou, launched a year ago. This car topped…
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.