Home Archives for Hector Fratty Page 230

Posts by author

Hector Fratty

11791 posts

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.

Mobileye Starts Testing Self-Driving Vehicles in Germany

In July 2020, Mobileye announced that Germany’s independent technical service provider, TÜV Süd, had awarded it an automated vehicle testing permit.It allows the company to drive its test vehicles in…

Merged PSA-FCA Declare Their New Name

The merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group will result in a company known as Stellantis. The automakers said the name “will be used exclusively at the group level,…

Flashback: Selling Lighting Technology in the Beforetimes

This week, we take a look at an article about Cibié lights, published in a British driving enthusiast magazine in 1976. At that time, most UK vehicles used sealed beam…

Rohm’s New Monolithic LED Driver

Rohm have a new extremely compact, high-output linear single-chip LED driver IC that provides stable lighting even in case of line voltage drops, making it ideal for a broad range…

EC Greenlights AMS Buyout of Osram

Austrian sensing company AMS won their bid on Osram last December, but it’s taken until this past week for the European Commission to approve their acquisition of Osram. With that…

Luc Marbach Elected President of SIA

Following the General Assembly of the SIA (Society of Automobile Engineers) held last week, Luc Marbach was elected president of the SIA for a three-year term (2020-2023). Luc Marbach succeeds…

Input your search keywords and press Enter.