€30bn in BMW R&D to ’25: Zipse
The BMW Group are investing heavily in R&D in an effort to shape the mobility of the future. Oliver Zipse (photo), Chairman of BMW’s Board of Management, says “New technologies are…
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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.
European Sales Fell in February
New-car sales in Europe fell 7.2% to 1.067 million vehicles in February, as weakening global economy, higher vehicle taxes and the coronavirus outbreak weighed on consumers’ appetite for new cars.…
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Discover the Wonderful Story of Automotive Lighting
Jean-Paul Ravier, DVN consultant, introduced last month The Wonderfull Story of Automotive Lighting, a slide series in three chapters which last and 5th part “Automotive Lighting Future” is published this week on our DVN…
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Coronavirus: An Opportunity to Improve Our Efficiency
I remember, after the 2008 crisis, the first DVN workshop in Stuttgart when 18 experts and managers (most of them are still in our lighting community) talked and listened with…
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World Headlamp from Hella
Legislation for automotive lighting still varies from region to region. In the USA, legislation only permits the classic main light functions of low beam, fog light and high beam, while…
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Light is the New Chrome: VW Design Chief
EVs and AVs mean changes in the design of tomorrow’s cars, and the same applies for lighting. For example, consider VW’s futuristic ID.ROOMZZ. This SUV prototype is the latest addition…
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Big Range of Lighting Performance in EVs
The Finnish magazine “Tekniikan Maailma” has published (paywall) an interesting article comparing six electric cars: the Audi E-tron, Hyundai Ioniq, Kia e-Soul, Mercedes EQC, Renault Zoé, and Tesla Model 3.…
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ZKW’s Coronavirus Precautions
ZKW have implemented a package of measures to protect their workforce from the coronavirus. From 12 March, employees will be prohibited doing business outside Europe and crisis regions until further…
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Prediction Algorithms Improve Safety
The 6,500 U.S. pedestrian deaths in 2019—an increase of 5% over 2018—and the recent accidents involving automated vehicles have heightened the call for improved detection of pedestrians and other moving obstacles. The Southwest Research Institute’s new computer vision tool uses a novel deep learning algorithm to predict motion by observing real-time biomechanical movements, with the…
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ADB developped in the Greatest French Economic Magazine
The greatest French economic newspaper «Les Echos» published in its last week-end magazine, an article considering ADB as one of the 75 «things», as places, restaurants, personnalities, products and technologies…
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