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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.

Forvia Technologies to Shine at CES

Forvia, the 7th-largest global automotive supplier, will reveal several world premieres at CES this week, making a splash at the first CES with Forvia presenting the combined portfolio of their seminal companies Faurecia and Hella. Forvia will showcase a series of groundbreaking technology and interactive experiences, demonstrating the group’s leadership in sustainable materials, energy and…

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Plastic Omnium’s CES Showcase

For their first time participating at CES in Las Vegas, Plastic Omnium will be displaying innovations to position themselves at the forefront of the mobility revolution. 2022 marked a turning point for the supplier, now organised into five divisions: exterior car body panels; fuel tanks; modules; hydrogen, and lighting. They have developed systems to project…

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Bosch Bringing Level 4 Autonomy-Ready Lidar at CES

Bosch will preview several cutting-edge safety innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show 2023 that aim to improve safety and autonomous vehicles. Those betting big on the self-driving future will be interested to hear the company will showcase long-range lidar for Level 4 autonomous driving. The firm says lidar plays an essential role in developing safer…

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Benewake’s New 512-Line Auto Lidar

Benewake have officially released the first 512-line automotive-grade lidar, the AD2. It’s a 905-nanometre unit, scheduled to achieve mass production and delivery in 2023. CEO Li Yuan says “Lidar can identify at 100m distance if it is a person or a car, but at 200m, the vehicle and the person’s movements are no longer distinguishable”. …

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28 February is Luminar Day

Luminar will host Luminar Day on 28 February at their headquarters. It’s an event for investors, consumers, customers and suppliers, where Luminar will unveil their long-term product and technology roadmap for existing and new automaker customers. They also will detail their near-term and long-term financial plan among other news and updates, including full-year 2022 financials.…

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Audi’s Muntada: Lights to Interact Smoother and Safer.
Extract of a FastCompany article

Audi’s designers have reinvented the front lamps on the new R8, with an array of 25 LEDs providing headlight beams; fog lamps; turn signals, and previously impossible decoration. Audi’s head of lighting design, Cesar Muntada, was involved in transforming the vehicle lighting design alongside the likes of Wolfgang Huhn and Stephan Berlitz. Herewith, his thoughts:“We…

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