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.

Here, MobilEye in Self-Drive Tech Pact

Mobileye and Here are coöperating to package Here’s HD Live mapping software with MobilEye’s hardware and sell the bundle as a third-party automated platform

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Lucid Motors, Mobileye Collaborate on AVs

Lucid Motors, the luxury mobility company, and Mobileye have announced a collaboration to enable autonomous driving capability on Lucid’s vehicles.

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Faraday Future Show Tesla-Challenging EV

Electric vehicle start-up Faraday Future showed off a prototype of a vehicle set for production next year as the China-backed company strive

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Mercedes is Top Lux Brand in USA

Mercedes took the № 1 spot in luxury car sales in 2016 in the U.S. market even though sales for the year declined—the results were still strong

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Aiming Quality has to be improved

Nine years ago, we wrote in a DVN editorial: “The situation of aiming is grim; a great many vehicles drive around with improperly-adjusted headlamps, even in countries where public awareness…

DVN Workshop Lectures from OEMs, T1s

At the DVN workshop next week near Detroit, attendees will hear six lectures from car makers and eight from Tier-1 suppliers.

Here’s a preview of the docket:

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Hector Fratty

Here, MobilEye in Self-Drive Tech Pact

Lucid Motors, Mobileye Collaborate on AVs

Faraday Future Show Tesla-Challenging EV

Mercedes is Top Lux Brand in USA

Aiming Quality has to be improved

DVN Workshop Lectures from OEMs, T1s

India Car Lights Market to Boom by ’22: Report

Global Night Vision System Market Forecast To ’20

Flex-n-Gate Seek Plastic Omnium Site Buys

Virtual World to Perfect Future Vehicles

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