2 Lighting CTOs: Good Chance !
Ralf Kladtke from ZKW left his company and is replaced by Jûrgen Antonitsch who has already done in ZKW a wonderful job.The seconf CTO, Todd Morgan is leaving his position.…
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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.
Obituary: Marelli AL’s Alain Buisson
We are sad to report that our colleague Alain Buisson has died. Extremely passionate about his work and with an uncommon flair for innovation, he regularly created new optical concepts…
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LRC’s Short Video Series: Lighting in a Post-COVID World
During the coronavirus closedown, experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center have been making videos about the future of lighting in a post-COVID world. Renowned vehicle lighting researcher John…
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Automotive Experience Reaches New levels with LEDs
Extract from LEDs magazine LEDs are changing the game in exterior lighting. In the future, intelligent display systems on the front and back of a vehicle could send messages or…
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New Mercedes S-Class and Electric EQST
The new Mercedes S-Class will bring a “completely new level” of artificial intelligence to the luxury sedan class when it goes on sale later this year, Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius…
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Hyundai’s New Santa Fe Unveiled
Hyundai’s upcoming New Santa Fe has been shown, and it bristles with new looks and new features. The egg-crate grille neatly hides the headlamps, which are both inboard and outboard…
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Controversy: IIHS Says AVs Would Cut 1/3 of U.S. Crashes
The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released a report saying autonomous vehicles could likely only prevent a third of all U.S. road crashes, but couldn’t help those caused…
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Yole-System Plus Webcast: From ADAS to AV
Yole Développement and System Plus Consulting are putting on a webcast this coming 30 June on the theme: “From ADAS to Automated Driving”, presenting the evolution of sensing, computing, and…
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Nikola Motors: The Tesla of Trucks?
Truck maker Nikola Motors, created five years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and based in Phoenix, Arizona since 2018, went public last week. This they did not via…
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Nissan CEO on How to Overcome the Crisis
In an interview with Les Echos, Nissan General Manager Makoto Uchida manager explained his transformation plan: “The transformation of Nissan is on the “Nissan Next” plan that we have presented.…
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