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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.

How the Pandemic is Affecting Automakers

Europeans and Americans have limited the damage linked to the Covid-19.Fears of a wave of failures with the total shutdown of their activity mostly didn’t materialise, as companies managed to…

Faurecia, Valeo CTOs to Open DVN-Interior E-Workshop

Interior lighting is one of the numerous topics we’ll address at the inaugural DVN-I Smart Interior Conference and Expo to be held online this coming 24 September, providing an ideal…

Vision of Future Car Interior Lighting

By Carsten Befelein, DVN-Interior Consultant, Smart Interior Workshop Carmakers are running with lighting as a key factor for the future car interior. Today we have different functional lamps for reading…

BOE’s New OLED Tail Light Solution

At SID Displayweek 2020, BOE demonstrated an OLED taillight module, developed in collaboration with “automotive makers” BOE declined to identify. The red OLED taillights offer up to 2,000 nits’ brightness…

New PC Techniques For New Forward Lighting

A vehicle’s front combination light usually comprises dozens of components, clips, and screws. Covestro have a new, different idea: a headlamp module concept composed of a reflector/housing, collimator lens, bezel,…

Design Award for ZKW Light Module

ZKW’s new StripeZ LED light module has won the German Design Award 2020 in the Auto Parts and Accessories category. The jury liked the unusually compact design of the lighting…

Instead ISELED Conference: A livestream with an audience of some 70 “real” participants

With all the many developments around ISELED – a bunch of new products, the roadmap for “ISELED next” and working prototypes of ILaS, the new ISELED Light and Sensor network…

VCSELs in Production Car Lidar From 2022

AMS and Ibeo Automotive Systems confirm that VCSEL technology is a core component of Ibeo’s new solid-state lidar solution, ibeoNEXT. Ibeo’s lidar system will be used in L3 automated driving…

Full-width Taillights More and More Used

One interesting design trend is now the full-width taillights, stretched across the butts of cars and trucks everywhere. Examples with the 2020 Porsche 811, the Audi A7, Lincoln Aviator, and…

JLR Working to Cut Carsickness

Motion sickness is a difficulty that autonomous driving will face. It usually takes place when passengers look inside the vehicle and thus see a fixed environment, while their bodies feel…

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