Thank You, Geoff—Have a Great Retirement!
When Geoff Draper informed me about his decision to leave the GTB presidency to relax and enjoy time with his wife Ann and their family, at first I didn’t believe…
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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.
Peugeot 208 Elected Car of the Year
The 90th edition of the GIMS, which was supposed to welcome the media from yesterday Monday, will finally not take place. Despite the cancellation of the Geneva International Motor Show,…
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SiliconCore’s 0.83mm µLED at ISE
SiliconCore showed their Lotus 0.83mm technology with a µLED display at ISE 2020. The µLED display, they say, is three times as bright and 50% more power-efficient. SiliconCore say their new…
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ZKW’s Revenue Report
The ZKW Group’s revenue was maintained at a high level of €1.25bn despite the difficult conditions in the international automotive industry. At the end of the year, the ZKW Group…
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Hella Strive to Continue Market-Beating Growth
Hella say they will continue to invest consistently in future-oriented automotive topics that follow the major market trends, while at the same time focusing on strict cost and efficiency management.…
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Osram Opto Team With XTPL
Osram Opto Semiconductors recently began to work with Polish 3D-printing company XTPL to initiate evaluation of adopting 3D printing technology solutions to address the challenges connected with the manufacture of…
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Project to Turn Valeo Into a European Company
On 20 February, Valeo’s Board of Directors approved the project to transform Valeo into a European company (Societas Europaea, SE). The legal status of European company will better reflect the…
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Osram’s New IR Laser For Short–Range Lidar
Osram Opto Semiconductors have announced the SPL DP90_3, with which has been specially developed for high-resolution, near-field detection in lidar systems. Long-range lidar is used to detect objects up to approximately 250 metres away. The immediate surroundings of the car must also be reliably captured by short- or midrange lidar, which covers a distance up…
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SPEOS Radically Shrinks Simulation Time
The Ansys SPEOS lens system importer, created in partnership between Ansys and Zemax, is designed to streamline workflows and protect intellectual property. This new end-to-end solution for camera testing and validation merges the component-level design, modelling, and simulation capabilities of Zemax’s OpticStudio® with the modeling, simulation, analysis and visualisation benefits of SPEOS. Ansys VP and GM Eric Bantegnie says…
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European Project: Centimetre-Level AV Positioning
Autonomous vehicles and ADAS need robust, precise positioning information to enable reliable operations, which will be particularly important during the early transitional phase of the technology when other vehicles around them will not be automated. And innovative new positioning solution was developed in the European PRoPART (Precise and Robust Positioning for Automated Road Transports) project,…
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