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The new DVN Study New Lighting Functions 2020–2030 describes in 125 detailed pages how safety, communication, comfort, and styling with light can most feasibly be improved in context of today’s and tomorrow’s realities on the ground around the world. It’s now available for purchase. The main reason you should buy this study is to have…
Due to growing concerns and new measures taken by governments and companies regarding the COVID-19, and after consulting the conference’s Steering Committee, the VISION organization decided that “SIA VISION Conference” initially planned on October 7th & 8th, 2020 will be rescheduled to March 17th & 18th, 2021 in the same venue, same exhibition hall and…
Two technologies are presently at the top of the heap in HD projection: µLED and DMD.µLED (microLED) is based on thousands of individually programmable LEDs, produced by suppliers including Lumileds, Nichia, and Osram. Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD) have up to a million individually-aimable micromirrors; the basis is the Digital Light Processing technology from Texas Instruments.…
Micro- and miniLEDs are two technologies to enable new vehicle lighting functions. Many suppliers are working on these technologies. Osram demonstrated their Eviyos headlamp module with 2,048 pixels last year, and are developing a new version with up to 25,600 pixels based on microLED technology. Nichia and Infineon are developing a microLED-based headlamp featuring 16,000…
EOI (Excellence Optoelectronics) have received orders for miniLED automotive displays. The supplier will continue to expand their miniLED display portfolio of automotive dashboards, head up displays, and fine-pitch LED video walls. EOI began miniLED display development in 2018, and set up a new facility in Taiwan for mini- and microLED display production. The company have…
Hella are further expanding their global software competencies with a new operation they’re calling the Global Software House, to be managed by the supplier’s Berlin subsidiary Aglaia. The new operation will take global responsibility for coördinating software activities across the company and develop new, digitalised business models. Hella currently employ around 2,000 software experts worldwide,…
Lucid have unveiled production details of their LucidAir electric vehicle. It features cutting-edge technologies including lidar-embedded ADAS and advanced headlighting. The Lucid Air’s ADAS suite is called Lucid DreamDrive, which is a platform combining comprehensive sensor suite with a Driver Monitoring System (DMS). According to Lucid Motors, it is the first system of its kind…
Millions of lives are lost every year due to road traffic collisions—a figure called an outrage by the UN World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at the Road Safety Conference in Sweden last February: “It is an unacceptable price to pay for mobility”.According to WHO figures, approximately 1.35 million people still die in…
Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson (photo) shares some recent thoughts about ADAS and AV, and his considered opinion on what’s needed for a safe, performant automated vehicle sensor suite differs to that of notoriously lidar-dismissive Tesla CEO Elon Musk: “To be really safe, you need lidar, cameras and radars and they have to be sensor fused into a centralised…
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