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MIC Electronics, a major entrant in the design, development, and manufacture of LED video displays and lighting products, have partnered with LG Innotek to enter
French supplier Plastic Omnium have won approval from EU regulators to acquire Faurecia’s bumpers and front-end modules business on the condition that seven Faurecia plants are sold.
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Intel have announced they are acquiring Yogitech, an expert in semiconductor functional safety and related standards. The Yogitech team, based in Italy, will soon join
For the first time in America’s industrial history, the centre for automotive technology is drifting away from Detroit. Ford, aiming to put fully autonomous vehicles
France’s government, as part of a plan called New Industrial France Initiative, has decided to allow automakers to test self-driving cars on the country’s public roadways,
A Tesla owner crashed earlier this month on a Beijing commuter highway after the car failed to avoid a vehicle parked on the left side but partially in the roadway.
Daimler are increasing their output in Eastern European countries, and are particularly active in expanding their manufacturing footprint in the region. The company last month
By Daniel Stern, DVN General Editor
Everyone’s (still) talking about the IIHS headlamp tests, as it seems, even the New York Times. A few weeks ago we published a piece centred on the IIHS headlamp tests. It inspired quite a flurry of alarmed feedback. Some respondents were worried we’d made up our minds all about the questions and answers and were charging ahead with a position. That’s very much not the case—we’re much closer to the start than the finish of the conversation.
That previous article was meant to kickstart the conversation with due urgency. And the urgency is indeed quite extreme; just look at the factors in front of us: the increasing market penetration of ADB in Europe and the way-paving for its official approval in the USA, the IIHS test results in context of the existing Consumer Reports tests and the NHTSA proposals and SAE counterproposals for NCAP headlamp tests, the relatively rare opportunity to participate in a conversation with NHTSA about lighting, and the growing number and awareness of traffic-related deaths and injuries.
And while the situation is improving, there is still a great deal of conflicting philosophical inertia in our field about what makes a good and effective headlighting system and how the various factors rank. ADB is a great deal more complex than high/low beam, so the question, too, grows much more complex than the age-old US-versus-Europe debate over whether to prioritise seeing distance or glare control on low beam. Now’s the time to take a levelheaded look at the situation and figure out what to do and how to do it. Of course putting ADB on all cars immediately is not realistic, but neither is it reasonable to say everything’s fine with the status quo.
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