Tesla ‘Very Close’ to L5 AVs: Musk
Notoriously cocksure CEO Elon Musk says Tesla are “very close” to achieving L5 vehicle autonomy, though he didn’t specify just how close; “I’m extremely confident that Level 5 or essentially…
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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.
FMCW Lidar On the Road
US-based self-driving platform developer Aurora have begun testing their newest FirstLight lidar system on development vehicles, following the company’s acquisition in 2018 of lidar specialists Blackmore, who brought expertise in…
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Jenoptik to Buy Trioptics
Trioptics will be absorbed into Jenoptik, who have agreed a two-stage deal to acquire Trioptics by the end of next year. Trioptics, founded in 1991 by current CEO Eugen Dumitrescu,…
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Velodyne to Go Public Via Graf Industrial RTO
Velodyne Lidar have raised USD $150m in a reverse takeover and will be combining with Graf Industrial to go public in the third quarter of this year. It is expected…
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LeddarTech Buy VayaVision
LeddarTech have bought Israeli sensor fusion and perception software company VayaVision, whose technologies LeddarTech plan to leverage in accord with LeddarTech’s longrunning open platform strategy to deliver an end-to-end ADAS…
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Jinoid Pick Newsight CMOS Sensors
South Korean sensor provider Jinoid have chosen Newsight’s CMOS image sensors for advanced smart vision and inspection sensor systems. Newsight’s NSI3000 line sensor, and NSI1000 area sensor have already successfully…
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Audi CEO: “We Take the Crisis As An Opportunity”
Audi’s new CEO Markus Duesmann plans to leverage the deepest industry slump in decades to make the automaker nimbler and sharpen their technological edge after five years of management turmoil.…
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EKOLAS Brings New Efficient Lasers
Osram Opto Semiconductors has been working for many years on high-power lasers for special applications such as metal processing using welding robots in the automotive industry. Now they are presenting…
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Skoda CEO Maier leave his post
Bernhard Maier,60, CEO of Volkswagen Group’s Skoda brand, will leave his post after nearly five years at the end of July ; his successor will be elected by the board in…
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150 DVN Reports—And Counting!
Last week, we published our 150th DVN Report! Many of them, going back years now, are still apposite today. Of course, some of the earlier ones contain information that no…
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