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.

How the pandemic will speed up some trends, stall others

The coronavirus outbreak has the potential to reshape the auto industry in ways that go far beyond the short-term effects on sales and production. “COVID-19 is hitting the industry just…

Marelli AL: Leveraging Strengths Versus Challenges

Automotive Lighting was founded in 1999 as a 50:50 joint venture between the vehicle lighting operations of Magneti Marelli and those of Robert Bosch. In 2001, Magneti Marelli increased their…

New Headlight Rating System, New Challenges

Last month we presented a new rating system which—for the first time—facilitates qualitative evaluation of glare-free high beam (ADB) systems. Now we bring you more information. TU-Darmstadt’s Professor Khanh, leader…

L-Lab to Look at Glare Risk From Small Lights

The L-Lab was founded in 2000 as a research platform for public private partnership together with university of Paderborn and Hella. Christian Schmidt, Hella’s Head of Lighting Innovation, is a…

Robooptic: Experts in Laser, OLED, and LED DMD Process

Robooptic Systems, formerly well-known as M-Tech Systems, remain deeply involved in highly automated production processes which require functionality such as high-resolution machine vision, micropositioning, active alignment, highly accurate precision bonding,…

New Bimmer 4’s Fine Lines in Lighting

The new BMW 4 bristles with advanced lighting technology—and advanced style. LED headlamps are standard equipment with particularly fine contours; laser high beam boost is available as an option. The…

China’s NIO, launch level 4 trials in Israel with Mobileye

NIO, the Chinese electric vehicle maker and a major rival of Tesla is installing Mobileye kits for driverless cars. As part of the project, NIO will manufacture and install in…

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