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.

Hyundai Design Chief Steps Aside

Luc Donckerwolke, the Belgian designer who overhauled styling at Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, citing personal reasons, is leaving Hyundai Motor. Donckerwolke joined the Korean maker from Volkswagen in 2015 to…

No L3 Autonomy in Audi A8

Audi have abandoned plans to introduce Level 3, eyes-off-the-road autonomous driving technology in their A8 sedan. The feature, called Traffic Jam Pilot, was to have been activated only in markets…

VW’s Diess Envies Tesla’s Software

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is pushing executives at the automaker to come up with solutions to match Tesla’s software expertise. Diess says Tesla’s competitive edge in electric cars and…

Bosch Forecast: Minus-20 in ’20

Bosch expect automotive production to fall by 20% this year, as the coronavirus pandemic slams the brakes on factory production lines and saps demand. “We are bracing ourselves for a global recession…

DVN Munich Workshop 2020

Lighting in North America Report

The pandemic has created a time and space appropriate for pondering broader themes than there’s usually time for, so this report aims to provide the reader with a well-rounded grasp…

We Must Be Optimistic

COVID-19 is continuing to kill more and more people in the world, pushing to work at home for most of us, and worrying about a very bad economic situation coming.But…

New Report on US Industry: “Constraints of NA’s Lighting environment Give Rise to Innovation Opportunities”

DVN releases today its third report on vehicle lighting in North America.This report focusses in two parts on the topography of the North American vehicle lighting world. Daniel Stern, the author of the report – The first part describes the environment; that involves a critical look at the legal and regulatory circumstances that keep the…

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