Audi’s Park Assist Optional on A3
Audi have expanded availability of their parallel park assist feature to the Audi A3 cabriolet range. VW recently introduced a similar system as an option for their new Volkswagen Tiguan small SUV.
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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.
PReVENT Final Report is Published
As probably the most significant publicly-funded active safety R&D project this decade, the European PReVENT Integrated Project addressed the full range of next generation collision avoidance
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Mercedes Driver Fatigue Monitor Coming Soon
Next Spring, Mercedes-Benz will release a new driver-assistance system called Attention Assist that can recognise driver fatigue. Mercedes say scientific studies indicate around 25% of all serious accidents on motorways are caused by
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First Communicative Accelerator Pedal
Continental's Accelerator Force Feedback Pedal has reached market production for the first time – and aims at significantly reducing the number of accidents.
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DA Tech for new BMW 7
The new BMW 7 Series offers a new advanced driver assistance system developed by BMW, Continental and Mobileye. Three driver assistance functions are controlled by a single camera
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Heuliez Rescue Plan Approved
The French commercial court approved on August 14th, plans by India's Argentum Motors to acquire a controlling stake in Heuliez, which had been under bankruptcy protection since December 2007.
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Tooling Industry Foundering Globally
The US auto industry have seen half their domestic toolmakers shut down in the past few years as automakers decide to go wherever they can get good tools for the right price,
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US Automakers Like Recycled Plastics
While suffering from plummeting sales and struggling to meet the market demand to reduce its footprints upon the environment, the American automotive industry are looking to recycled plastics
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Opel Insignia Sports Tourer L/DA Complement
Opel’s new station wagon, unveiled at Paris in October offers leading lighting and driver-assistance technologies wrapped in a sporty, premium body. Designers gave the rear of the Sports Tourer a cohesive, coherent appearance
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Lighting, Driver Assistance Tech in 2009 Honda Legend
The new 2009 Honda Legend’s L/DA features include a reversing camera, electronic stability/traction control (VSA), emergency brake assist (EBA), electronic brake-force distribution (EBD), new BiXenon headlamps, and new rear lamp clusters.
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