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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.

Henri Kirchhof succeeds Jürgen Antonitsch as ZKW CTO

ZKW Group CEO, M. Oliver Schubert, announced last week the handing over of M. Jürgen Antonitsch responsabilities as ZKW Group CTO to Henri Kirchhof.

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ISAL ’17 Cooking Along

The ISAL steering board committee met last week in Darmstadt with the 20 members around a table talking with passion and love to winnow the 135 abstracts

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AL is Major Supplier of Lights on Geneva Show Cars

AL lights graced a great many vehicles launched at this month’s Geneva motor show. For the new Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUV, AL supply 35-watt HID headlamps,

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Range Rover Velar Has Low-Profile LED Modules

The Range Rover Velar, intended to slot in between the Evoque and the Sport, has a very nice frontal appearance aided by two modules on each

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Electric London Taxicabs to Roll Down UK Line

LTC (the London Taxi Company), owned by Chinese Volvo-owner Geely, have opened up a new plant near Coventry—the first new car factory to be built in the UK

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IR LED Boosts Car Recognition

Osram Opto are expanding their offering of high-power infrared LEDs to include a new 810-nm wavelength. This development will benefit camera systems,

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Daimler R&D Chief Talks Self-Drive Plans

Daimler’s new R&D chief Ola Kaellenius, the Swedish executive who succeeded Thomas Weber, believes the auto industry is at a major crossroads as megatrends

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Magna Focus on Camera Production for AV

Magna see onboard cameras as a significant segment for growth in the supply chain. The Canadian-Swiss supplier have been providing automakers with cameras

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Lear-Wyoming Partnership for Vehicle Comms

Lear are partnering with the Western US state of Wyoming to enable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication in the state.

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Nvidia AV Partnerships Detailed

Nvidia last week spelled out details of two partnerships for their self-driving computer chips: one deal in which Bosch will use Nvidia’s chips

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