Fourth Week At Home…And Counting…
North Americans and most of us in Europe, except our Swedish colleagues, are now in our fourth week of home confinement. I am regularly talking with several of you, and…
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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.
Automatic Lights Now Required In Japan
In October of 2016 the Japanese Ministry of Transport started the clock toward the day when automakers would start being required to equip all new vehicles with automatic headlamps. And…
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Lighting Enables New Car Functions
In the ElectroOptics March 2020 monthly edition, Matthew Dale explains in three pages, to the photonic comminuty, how high-resolution LED matrices and blue lasers increase the functionality of automotive lighting. He…
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Darpa’s Invisible-Headlights Program
In military applications, headlights allow adversaries to detect a vehicle’s presence, in some cases from long distances away. Darpa—the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, who first devised the internet—are…
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Samsung Stopping LCD Production
Samsung Display will stop LCD panel production by the end of this year and turn their activities fully to OLED and other display technology. Samsung Display currently have LCD production…
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Hella’s Expectations Are Bright Depite Crisis
Hella sales and earnings declined as expected in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2019/2020 (June 2019 to February 2020) in a considerably negative market environment. Currency and portfolio-adjusted…
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Pandemic Puts Prices Up at Lumileds
Affected by the ongoing pandemic, worldwide businesses continue to update their measures and business outlook in the past weeks. Lumileds, for instance, reported price increase due to Covid-19. They’ve announced…
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Nvidia Lead In AV Chip Development
Navigant’s research on more than 70 companies to determine who is leading the charge in hardware for AV technology has come up with an answer: Nvidia. The research looked at…
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Rearview Cameras of Tomorrow in the future
The rearview mirror has been a staple in big trucks for as long as big trucks have existed. Now engineers at Daimler are investigating the feasibility of replacing them with…
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Waymo’s Newest Driver Has Super Vision
Waymo have unveiled their 5th-generation Waymo Driver, the combination of hardware and software that guides the company’s AVs. According to Waymmo, the new tech can spot a car door opening…
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