A sensor from continental to avoid accidents at low speed
Continental Automotive Systems has developed an optical sensor which can reduce the severity or even completely avoid accidents at lower speed.
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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.
Intelligent vision from Mobileye on Aftermarket
Advanced Warning System, an intelligent vision product from Mobileye features a “3rd eye” for Aftermarket which can prevent accidents, according to the company.
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Lane Departure Warning and Prevention in the Infiniti
Lane Departure Warning Systems which indicate inadvertent lane departure with a simple chame, were introduced on cars more than 3 years ago.
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Microvision has signed development agreement with automotive Tier 1
Microvision, a developer of light-scanning technologies for display and imaging products, has signed a development agreement with an unnamed European Tier 1
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Photonics industry to exceed $600 billion in 2015
A new study reports that the European optics sector grew by 12% last year, and predicts that the world photonics market will grow by 7.6% annually for the next
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Pico-projectors to take the lead of laser projection market
The first application to use laser projectors is expected to be rear-projection television (RPTV), driven primarily by the price and availability of lasers and then
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PSA selects Kaluga for Russian car plant
PARIS (Reuters) -- French carmaker PSA/Peugeot-Citroen said today December 27, 2007 it had selected Kaluga, 180km southwest of Moscow, for its Russian plant.
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PSA target to be in the Top 4 in South America
C.Streiff sets ambitious growth targets for Mercosur. In Brazil Peugeot and Citroen have a marked and growing presence with 206 and C3 though still not in the same
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A multifunction camera from Valeo
OptiVeo front system is a driver’s aid which uses sensor technologies to monitor the vehicle’s external surrounding and provides a 360° surveillance of the vehicle’s environment.
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Volvo Cars and Driver assistance
Volvo Cars has announced a new automatic braking system to avoid pedestrians, and an automatic steering to prevent head-on collision.
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