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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.

Camera-Radar-Sonic-Lidar: Strengths and Weaknesses

Cameras Cameras are great at capturing colour and providing texture and contrast data. But cameras can only detect when there’s adequate lighting and reliable weather conditions. They can’t provide distance information, and at least two cameras are required to acquire a 3D image. Radars Radars can determine the distance information with great precision along with…

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VW’s Diess sees AV Transforming cars more than EV

Volkswagen Group’s CEO sees autonomous-driving technology bringing about an even bigger shift than electric power. “This change will transform the industry more than EVs does,” VW Group CEO Herbert Diess said in an interview for Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. “The car becomes so different when it’s driving autonomously.” While driverless development is taking longer than…

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DVN Interview: Samsung’s Joong-Kon Son

We recently had the great pleasure and privilege to talk with Dr. Joongkon Son, Samsung’s VP head of automotive LED sales and marketing. He has been in the LED industry for the last two decades’ time, devoting his efforts to enabling improvements within the lighting industry. Most of Son’s work has been devoted to enabling…

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Instrument Systems: AMS Screen Imaging System

The AMS Screen Imaging System is a new, highly efficient measurement tool for all automotive front lighting applications. As a turnkey solution, it provides fast and precise analyses for a wide range of lighting scenarios with advanced headlamps. The measurement procedure combines camera-based images on a projection screen (screen photometry) with goniometric far-field measurements in…

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Geely Vision Starburst Unveiled

Geely have shown their new Vision Starburst, a space-inspired design vision they say will form the basis of future Geely models. Central to the company’s design direction is a unity between the exterior and interior, colour and materials, and the car and the user. From the front the Vision Starburst presents a parabolic-styled grille and a…

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Three-Channel LED Driver Simplifies Rear Lighting Designs

Diodes Incorporated have expanded their portfolio of devices supporting automotive exterior illumination with the new AL5873Q linear LED driver targeted at simplifying combination rear lamp designs. Each of the AL5873Q’s three channels can drive up to 250mA, and is set via two reference resistors, which are connected to the driver IC’s REF1 and REF2 pins. Support…

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Faurecia Buy DesignLED to Get Into Interior Lighting

Scottish flexible LED lighting technology specialist DesignLED have been bought by automotive equipment giant Faurecia. The entire designLED team will transfer to Faurecia and will continue to develop its technology from its current base. “This is a hugely important and exciting milestone in the evolution of designLED,” said DesignLED CEO Stuart Bain. “In recent years…

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