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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.

Car Smart Interior Workshop Moves Online

“New Technologies for Car Interior and Mobility” will be the theme of the Car Smart Interior Workshop, the first DVN-Interior event. New use cases within more automated and connected vehicles,…

UCSB Team Push LEDs to Compete With Laser Light

University of California Santa Barbara have been goosing LEDs with new techniques to wring more light from them. UCSB electrical and computer engineering professor Jonathan Schuller works with Claude Weisbuch…

New Efficient Non-Phosphor White LEDs

A new way of making white LEDs without phosphor has been published by a research team at the University of California at Santa Barbara; Nobel laureate and blue/white LED pioneer…

Osram-Continental’s New Lighting Functions

Osram-Continental are working on projection-based lighting functions for cars. The vehicle and its surroundings become a screen for automakers and mobility providers. Osram-Continental CEO Dr. Dirk Linzmeier says his company…

GaN Blue µLEDs for LiFi Communications

French research institute CEA-Leti’s researchers have broken the VLC (visible light communications) throughput world record of 5.1 Gbps, using a single GaN blue MicroLED. Their data transmission rate of 7.7…

PlayNitride Aim to Slash µLED Cost

MicroLED technology supplier PlayNitride say they want to reduce the production cost of microLED chips by 95% in five years. CEO Charles Li says the two major keys of microLEDs…

Audi CEO to also lead R&D at brand

Audi CEO Markus Duesmann will also head the Volkswagen Group subsidiary’s R&D division, the company said last week. Duesmann, a mechanical engineer who was BMW’s purchasing chief and became Audi CEO…

Lumileds debuts Philips LED integral beam upgrade

Lumileds has introduced the Philips LED integral beam as a DOT-compliant LED upgrade for conventional sealed beam headlamps. Utilizing state-of-the-art LED technology, these replacement headlights feature a sharp cut-off point…

Restyle Roundup: New-Look Lights

The new BMW M5 Competition has narrow L-shaped light guides, which point towards the double grille and undersling twin-blue-line eyelids; the LED and laser road illumination optics are in the…

New Lexus Has New Lights

The newest Lexus IS has a new iteration of the brand’s signature lightstyle. The checkmark-shaped DRLs are neatly counterbalanced by the side marker light at the outboard edge, while the…

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