Fantastic Progress in Lighting Industry
Last month I took a night drive which showed me the fantastic progress of the lighting industry. I was in a demonstrator car equipped with a Valeo monolithic LED with…
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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.
Report on GTB 128th Session
Special to DVN by Geoff Draper, GTB President The 128th plenary session of GTB was held at Seoul recently, with a participation of more than 70 experts from 15 of the 19 member delegations. GTB input to the GRE Informal WG on Simplification of Lighting Regulations This continues to be a major focus for all…
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Harder IIHS Tests for 2020 Awards
The IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) have announced that starting next year, headlights ranking “good” or at least “acceptable” on the institute’s tests must be standard equipment for vehicles to qualify for the Top Safety Pick+ award, the highest award from IIHS. Up to now, such a rating was required for Top Safety Pick, while…
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Osram’s Coming 25,000 Digital Lights
Digital lighting is a key area of investigation for the automotive lighting supply chain. It enables smarter lighting functionalities, safer ADB designs with cameras. Osram’s first-generation Eviyos hybrid LED, slated for SOP early next year, consists of 1,024 individually controllable pixels with an integrated IC. But Osram are already developing the Eviyos range’s second-generation iteration,…
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ZKW Expand Mexico, Slovakia Plants
ZKW are pouring money—over €210m—in production plants lately. They’re expanding their manufacturing capacity at Silao, Mexico, which went into operation in 2015, by 19,000 m2 by a year from now, and plan to double the staffing level by 2023. High-quality headlamps for premium automobile manufacturers such as BMW, Daimler, and Volvo are manufactured there, and…
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Lighting is Integral to Design: Hyundai’s Lee
Hyundai will focus more on a typical customer’s lifestyle and needs when designing their future cars, says SangYup Lee, in charge of the brand’s global design centre. Up to now, Hyundai’s model range has had a family look with all cars having the same face, Lee said. In the future the design of new models…
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LeddarTech Team with First Sensor
LeddarTech have announced a collaboration with First Sensor for lidar options. The platform provides the following benefits a set of solutions which addresses the requirements of automakers and tier-1 suppliers. LeddarTech and First Sensor will initiate the collaboration with the development of a lidar evaluation kit, demonstrating a technical concept in a working lidar and creating a…
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Tesla to Build 500k Cars a Year in German Plant
Tesla plan to build 500,000 electric vehicles a year at their new factory on the outskirts of Berlin, while creating 10,000 jobs, according to planning documents to develop the enormous “gigafactory” site. Construction will start next year. Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that a site in Gruenheide, Brandenburg, had been chosen to build Tesla…
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Renault Board Wants VW Group’s de Meo as CEO
Renault’s board wants Luca de Meo, who heads SEAT brand, to become the automaker’s next CEO, French media reports say.De Meo won out over Patrick Koller, CEO of the supplier Faurecia, according to Agence France-Presse and Les Echos. The board chose de Meo as their preferred candidate at its meeting last week, the reports said. De Meo,…
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West European Up Again in November
West European new car sales grew by 4.2% year-on-year (YoY) in November, according to data released by LMC Automotive. LMC said the result is one of relative improvement, against November 2018. Gradual normalisation from a weak September 2019. The West European selling rate reached 14.0m units a year in November, moving upwards from 13.5m units…
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