FT May 8th: Bosch prepares for acquisitions
Bosch is embarking on an acquisition spree after two years of relative reticence as the financial crisis makes companies much cheaper.
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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.
Schefenacker’s Organization Particulars
Since February 2008, Schefenacker lighting trades under the ODELO name, and Schefenacker mirrors trades under VISIOCORP.
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Gentex to Supply Hyundai
Gentex Corporation will supply auto-dimming interior and exterior rear-view mirrors for the 2008 Hyundai Genesis. The Genesis, Hyundai's latest entry into the luxury vehicle segment,
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Volvo’s New Safety Goal: Eliminate All Injuries by 2020
Volvo enjoys a long reputation for the safety of its vehicles. Now the company is targeting zero injuries and fatalities for drivers and passengers in its vehicles by 2020.
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Can IVBSS Safety Benefits Be Proven?
An integrated countermeasure system could prevent over 48 percent of rear-end, run-off-road, and lane change crashes. Through the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems initiative,
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Intelligent Transport Lighting Congress a Success
The Intelligent Transport Lighting Congress took place in Frankfurt from the 28th to 31st January 2008.
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Technology Makes Safer Drivers?
Active safety systems now on the market fall into five areas, as defined by a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the vehicle safety research arm of the U.S. insurance industry:
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Combined Rear View Camera and LED Stoplight from Hella
Hella supply a special housing which can integrate both a rear view camera and an LED-based centre stoplight. This can be incorporated into installations of
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Pico-projector Systems Have Great Future.
Tiny pico-projectors are for highly mobile applications. The very smallest, meant for integration into cell phones, have been demonstrated but are not expected to be commercially available until 2010.
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New Pulse-Driven LEDs Look Twice Brighter
According to an article in Nikkei Electronics, a research group at Japan’s Ehime University has developed a pulse-drive control method to make LEDs look twice as bright by leveraging the properties
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