Honda R&D on Motorcycle Safety
Motorcyclists could someday benefit from vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) research presently underway by Honda.
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Hector Fratty
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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.
Nissan at ITS
Nissan Motors displayed advanced intelligent transport technologies at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), held in New York from 16 -20 November 2008.
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Denso at ITS
Denso exhibited their intelligent transportation system (ITS) products at the 15th World Congress held in New York from 17 to 20 November.
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Gentex DA for Toyota Venza
Gentex will supply auto-dimming mirrors with advanced electronic features for the Toyota Venza crossover sedan. Gentex’ SmartBeam® automatic headlamp
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VOLVO XC60 Driver Assistance System Analysis
Volvo's XC60 competes with the Audi Q5, BMW X3 and Mercedes GLK.
The designer of the car is Doug Frazer who reports to Steve Martin, director of design at Volvo Car.
Several innovations equip the car mainly in active safety, lighting and driver assistance safety systems.
Driving Vision News' in-depth analysis of the XC60 covers three rubrics:
Front lighting, Rear lighting and Driver system assistance systems.
Front lighting was presented on the 28th of October and rear lighting on the 11th of November. We present this week the third instalment with Driver Assistance systems.
The main Driver Assistance system of note in the XC60 is the City Safety system starting in 2009. Volvo are the first car maker in the world to offer an active crash avoidance system as standard equipment.
Why such a system?
The risk of rear-end collisions is particularly great in city traffic with its constant alternation between braking and accelerating. 75% of crashes recorded by the police occur at speeds below 30 km/h. Because in half of those cases the driver had not braked at all before the collision, Volvo took the decision to launch such a system to avoid collisions at low speed.
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Headlamp Adjustment Survey Released
Driving Vision News announce today November 25, 2008 the release of a detailed report on headlamp adjustment survey.The detailed study examines and analyses recent trends in headlamp aim on vehicles in use. Topics include the stringency and technical rectitude of periodic headlamp aim inspection requirements in various countries, the justifiability of existing statutory aim tolerances…
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Headlamp Adjustment Survey
Headlamp Adjustment Survey.Available. Learn more…
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Universities and Lighting&DA domains
Universities and Lighting & DAAvailable. Learn more…
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Regulation report
Regulation report Available January 13, 2009. Learn more…
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Intelligent Auto Lighting Congress
Intelligent Auto Lighting Congress Available February 10, 2009. Learn more…
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