Car Lights Won’t Go Away Soon
When it comes up in conversation that you’re professionally involved with vehicle lighting, odds are you’ve been asked whether autonomous cars won’t do away with the need for lights. Professor…
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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.
Great Work, Clear Vision from Prof. Khanh at TU Darmstadt
By Hector Fratty, DVN President
I had the chance to talk recently with Professor Khanh and his colleagues Jonas Kobbert, Katharina Schneider, D. English, and D. Polin about their studies on older drivers, headlamp aim and the consequence of bad aiming, the US IIHS headlamp assessments, the effects and exigencies of headlamp washing systems, and more.
All these interesting topics will be presented in forthcoming technical congresses, particularly at the ISAL congress next September in Darmstadt.
Prof. Khanh kindly sat down with me for a DVN-exclusive interview, and we now present his vision and predictions:
DVN: How do you see ADB in the future?
Khanh: ADB will be used in Japan, Eastern Asia, America, and parts of Europe. In the most parts of all continents, I see the future more with LED-low and high beam with high efficiency, low power and payable prices.
DVN: How will it be implemented? Mechanical or digital?
Khanh: The ADB with digital elements like LED-pixel light have better reliability and shorter reaction time because no motor and mechanical parts must be used.
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ELS: Good Job
ELS was celebrating its two years’ existence on this November 29th, in Paris, with an ELS event gathering car makers and lighting suppliers.
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4th Symposium on Automotive Lighting
The event was organized in Berlin on the 29th of November by Haus der Technik (HDT) with chaiman and moderator Dr. phil. nat. Rainer Neumann
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Technavio Bullish on Smart-Lights Growth
Technavio have published a market research report predicting the global adaptive front lighting market will grow at a CAGR of 13% from now until 2020.
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Nichia: Growing Demand to Make Smart Headlights
Takashi Sakamoto is Nichia’s Principal Technical Officer of Optoelectronics Products. Speaking at a press conference about laser headlamp developments,
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New LED Driver from Allegro
Allegro MicroSystems have announced their new AEC-Q100-qualified single-IC switching regulator that provides constant-current
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Mertens Migrates from Volvo to Audi
Peter Mertens, lately Volvo’s senior vice president of research and development, is Audi’s new technical development chief.
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New Report Predicts AV Timeline
ABI Research, in a new report, say they expect semi-autonomous systems will continue to dominate the market over the next decade,
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Apple Ask NHTSA for AV Test Parity
Apple have sent a letter to NHTSA, asking that new entrants to the vehicle arena be treated the same as established automakers
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