Canadian International Auto Show
Canada International Auto Show Available February 24, 2009. Learn more…
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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.
Geneva Motor Show
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Headlamp Adjustment Survey Report
Definitions and related interaction and philosophy of glare and visibility, Luminance, Illuminance and other technical terms are presented with discussion of relationships among seeing distance and glare. The influence of…
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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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