CES ’22: Small, But Still the Biggest!
Was it worth to travel to the reduced CES during Covid times? For me, a clear YES. I found a lot of surprising innovations and inspiring contacts. Of course, the…
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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.
CES 2022: My Collection of Unexpected Highlights
by Wolfgang Huhn, DVN Senior Advisor
Sony The first surprise in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (the biggest in the US) for me was the Sony booth. I expected nice TVs, cameras, mobile phones and HiFi equipment and found two electrical vehicles, a sedan named Vision S1 and an SUV Vision S2. The white S1 looked really…
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Brighter Might Not Be Better on Emergency Vehicles
Secondary crashes are a top cause of roadside deaths among firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, and other first responders. Conventional wisdom on emergency vehicle lighting is that higher intensity improve conspicuity and safety. But a new study concludes that’s not necessarily so. Researchers investigated the effects of light colour, intensity, modulation, and flash rates…
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Hella Sales Burdened by Supply Bottlenecks
The currency and portfolio-adjusted sales of the Hella Group fell accordingly in the first half-year (June until November 2021) by 2.6 per cent to € 3bn, while sales declined by 2 per cent. Due to the reduced sales volumes and increasing cost pressure, the adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (adjusted EBIT) fell to €156m…
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2022 Detroit Auto Show Slated for September
The 2022 North American International Auto Show is scheduled for 14-25 September in both Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center and around downtown Detroit with indoor and outdoor interactive displays. The first two days, 14 and 15 September, will be press and tech days. Then on 16 September will come the annual Charity Preview, which raises…
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OLEDWorks at CES: Newest OLED Tech
New automotive OLEDs will be 10 times brighter and allow finer segmentation. That’s what OLEDWorks have been, well, working toward, and the primary feature of their booth was the first showing of their new automotive demonstrator showing the latest advances in OLED lighting, including deep red OLED taillights and amber OLED panels for turn signals.…
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AMS-Osram’s Leadership in Optical Solutions
AMS Osram deliver industrial capacity in sensors and light technologies that serve for customers worldwide. In 2020, the company generated USD $5.5bn in combined revenues with technology areas of consumer electronics, automotive, industry, and medical solutions. Of tens of thousands of employees, about 5,500 are engineers. In automotive, the company have established their business in…
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Daniel Escamilla is Purchasing Veep at Luxit
Luxit Group, a new integration of Myotek, Sea Link, and two other companies we described last week, have announced that veteran purchasing professional Daniel Escamilla,25 years of experience in the automotive and automotive lighting industries, has joined the company as vice president of purchasing. Escamilla joins Luxit after serving in a variety of purchasing leadership positions for…
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Unveiled: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV
GM have taken wraps off two versions of their 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. The new pickup’s January 5 online debut, also the start of customer reservations, disappointed those who had expected to see the truck live at CES 2022, on the Las Vegas stage with CEO Mary Barra. Enabling the truck’s UX is Chevrolet’s first…
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Stanley’s High-Power IR VCSEL
Stanley Electric have started mass production and shipment of a high-power infrared VCSELcompliant automotive quality standard AEC-Q102, for the world’s first in-vehicle sensing device using an infrared VCSEL.The product was developed in cooperation with Lumentum, a global leader in design and manufacturing of high-performance infrared VCSEL arrays. Infrared sensors have long been used in a…
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