New Osram LED for Great Rear Fogs
Osram say their new Synios P2720 CR enables especially compact rear fog lamp designs in this current era’s drive for smaller and smaller lamps with more and more compact packaging.…
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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.
PACE Awards Celebrate Lighting Systems
Innovative excellence among automotive suppliers will be celebrated at the 26th annual PACE awards on 23 March in Detroit. Lighting and vision suppliers make a showing of finalists: • Hella for smaller, more…
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Varroc: Opening of a New Production Facility in Poland
After opening the R&D center in Krakow, the company has now opened a new facility specialized in headlamps manufacturing in Niemce. The plant brings more than 350 new jobs. “The investment…
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SLD Lasers Bring Bright Headlamps
US-based SLD Laser are showing headlamps based on the company’s high-performance laser diodes. Co-founder Paul Rudy says the technology enables high-output headlamps that are “highly efficient, cost-effective, and compact”. “We…
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Audi to Lead VW Group R&D Efforts
Audi will take the lead on R&D within the Volkswagen Group, to create greater economies of scale and a pooling of resources amongst the group’s various brands. The announcement, made…
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E-Class Makes Intelligence
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class will combine automotive intelligence with excitement. The latest generation of Mercedes-Benz’s best-selling model comes with the latest driving assistance systems, reacting if the driver does not. The steering wheel knows if the driver is not holding the wheel through sensors in the rim, providing warnings before activating Emergency Brake Assist if the…
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Goodbye Frankfurt, Hello Munich: IAA Will Move
Munich will succeed Frankfurt as the big German auto show’s host city starting next year, according to the German Automakers Association (VDA). The VDA’s contract with the Frankfurt trade fair…
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GTB Meeting: Den Haag
Special to DVN by Geoff Draper – GTB President Geoff Draper (front, centre) with GTB Expert Team in Seoul, December 2019 The GTB working rhythm consists of two plenary sessions per year in May and November and two intermediate working group sessions in February and July. This intermediate session, held at the Den Haag Central…
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Munich DVN Workshop Report
This report summarises the proceedings of the 2020 DVN Munich Workshop. It is not a substitute for having attended the event, but it conveys the main points of each lecture…
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2020 DVN Munich Workshop: see Lectures & Pictures
The 20th DVN workshop took place in Munich from January 28th at 12:30 to January 29th, 17:00, 2020 at the prestigious Hilton Airport Hotel. For this special event opening the…
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