European Sales, Model By Model
Bentley, Porsche, Volvo, and MG increased sales in June in a market that was down 25% for the month. The overall market’s decline, however, was a vast improvement on the…
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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.
Osram’s Happy Surprise
Osram’s financial results for fiscal 3Q20 are better than expected: revenue on a comparable basis fell by 29% YoY to €606m due to the impact of the Coronavirus crisis. EBITDA…
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ADAS–Lighting Report Goes Live
The link between lighting and ADAS started a decade ago when AFS used it for anticipation of road curves. Then some years later, cameras were integrated into headlighting to bring…
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ADAS and LIGHTING report
The link between lighting and ADAS is recent. It took root a decade ago when AFS—Adaptive Front-lighting Systems—used steering angle sensors to swivel the headlamps into road curves. Then some…
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Smart Interiors Online DVN-I Workshop: Don’t Miss It!
REGISTER NOW The inaugural DVN-Interior Workshop will be held online 24 September, with the rubric Car Smart Interior. The lecture docket is nearly final, including two keynotes that promise to…
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VISION Congress Confirmed, With Safety Constraints
SIA, the French Society of Automotive Engineers, are proceeding with great confidence their biennial lighting and ADAS event shall be held on 7–8 October in Paris. The 10th biennial VISION…
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Luc Brisson, New SVP Product Development of Varroc LS
Luc Brisson has joined Varroc Lighting Systems as the Senior Vice President of product development replacing Todd Morgan. Luc Brisson will assume responsibility for the leadership of the global product…
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Toyota, Freightliner Recall Trucks With Faulty Lights
Toyota discovered an assembly line mistake in how the front turn signals were hooked up on close to 185,000 Tundra pickup trucks made in 2018–20 and equipped with LED headlamps.…
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Instrument Systems: Optical Wafer Testing for µLEDs
Instrument Systems of the Konica Minolta Group introduces a camera-based measurement solution for µLED wafer testing that generates 2-dimensional, pixel-resolved optical analyses within given cycle times. The LumiTop 4000 can detect…
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