Tokyo 2019 Motor Show Report
Tokyo : The Future Through Japanese Eyes The theme of this year’s Tokyo Motor Show was «Open Future», and the show has been reinvented to provide visitors with a vision…
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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.
Tokyo: The Future Through Japanese Eyes
The theme of this year’s Tokyo Motor Show was “Open Future”, and the show has been reinvented to provide visitors with a vision of a future mobility society; to this end, the show’s scope has been expanded to encompass sub-themes like “The Excitement of Cars”, “Future Homes,” and “Future Towns.” Seven DVN Tokyo Takeaways: 1.…
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Lighting’s New Focus at the Tokyo Motor Show
The Tokyo Motor Show is just closing, and we’re bringing you the seven main takeaway points from the lighting perspective. This week’s newsletter presents first info on the event, and…
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STMicroelectronics, Audi in Car Lights Pact
STMicroelectronics, in partnership with Audi, are working toward next generation innovative automotive exterior OLED lighting solutions. The current coöperation expands the relationship and builds on Audi’s creativity and success in automotive lighting solutions and ST’s broad expertise in automotive semiconductors, and specifically controllers and drivers for automotive lighting applications. The next-generation lighting design will enable…
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LED Flicker Suppression for Safer ADAS, AVs
SmartSens, a Chinese supplier of high-performance CMOS imaging systems, have released proprietary LED Flicker Suppression (LFS) technology they say can help make AI-enabled ADAS and AV much safer. With the new technology innovatively implemented, SmartSens’ CMOS image sensors can effectively mitigate the dangers that often accompany ‘LED flicker’. Since LED driver units often use PWM…
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HUDs with LED/Laser Are Trending Up
Head-up displays can be improved through advanced LED technologies. A HUD system usually include a picture generating unit (PGU) consisting of an LED array, a thin film transistor production display, a lens system, and beam splitter. The units projects images and the images are reflected through folding mirrors and magnified on the windshield or a…
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Volkswagen Golf 8’s New Lights Look Familiar
The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf has narrow headlamps that manage to simultaneously tie the car to past Golfs while presenting as new and up-to-date. All versions of the car have LED lights.
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Consumers Still Skittish on AVs: Survey
Consumers don’t trust AVs yet, despite increased marketing and development of self-driving vehicles. That’s according to J.D. Power, whose recent survey indicates the 100-point “Mobility Confidence Index” is 36 for AVs, and 55 for EVs. “It was a little surprising to find consumer sentiment about self-driving vehicles and electrification has stayed flat, but it shows…
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Koito Results
In the Japanese auto industry, the production volume increased year on year due to the robust sales of newly registered vehicles. The global automobile production volume decreased year on year due mainly to the decreased production volume in North America, Europe, China, ASEAN countries and India. In this climate, the Koito Group’s net sales for…
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Pedestrian Detector Performance Varies—A Lot!
Pedestrian deaths on U.S. roads have been trending the wrong direction, climbing over the last few years, even as overall traffic safety improves. Over 6,000 pedestrians were killed by traffic violence in 2018—the worst count since 1990. Pedestrian detection systems with automatic emergency braking are meant to stop the vehicle if it detects a pedestrian…
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