After Delhi, Onward to Tokyo!
We at very happy (and more than a little proud) to see the very positive feedback from our first Delhi Workshop. Organising this event was quite a challenge and we…
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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.
Affordable BiLED at DVN Delhi Workshop
At the DVN Delhi workshop, Lumax-Stanley Deputy General Manager Hamid Pourkhataei gave an interesting lecture on a affordable bifunction headlamp.
He started by presenting Lumax-Stanley, a lighting joint venture focused on the Indian automative lighting market. They are the top automotive lighting company in India with sales turnover of USD $168m and around 1,700 employees. Pictured here is one of their series-production headlamps.
The speaker presented a design concept of a bi-function LED unit with design goals of small size, light weight, low power consumption, and a 2000-lumen light source giving strong beam performance.
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Car Light Revenue Up Trend to Continue: Study
The automotive lighting market is expected to reach USD $34.65bn by 2022, according to a study by Grand View Research, Inc.
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LED Price Heads Down as Tech Heats Up
According to Technavio in a newly-released report on the vehicle LED market, rapid advances in automotive LED technology and market proliferation are pushing down prices for LED-based lighting
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AL at CES: Coloured Lights, Projected Signals
The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas inaugurated this year’s international exhibition presence for Automotive Lighting
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Valeo: Self-Drive Test Pad Upgrades, Sales Keep Climbing
Valeo communicated last week the financial results of their 2015: sales are up to €14.54bn (up 14% vs. 2014) with an operating margin up 22% to €1.1m.
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Mentor Graphics: GM success
Mentor Graphics Corporation last week announced that General Motors are deploying Mentor’s Capital electrical systems design tools for vehicle
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Daimler’s Kaellenius is R&D Chief
Daimler have appointed Ola Källenius as head of research and development, making the 46-year-old Swede a prime contender to succeed Dieter Zetsche
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Self-Drive Could Prevent 95% of UK Crashes: Study
An IMechE study says government and industry need to urgently address the barriers to adoption and the regulatory and insurance
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Wildlife Detection System Under Test
The US State of Idaho’s transport agency, ITD (Idaho Transportation Department) have started evaluating a new wildlife detection system
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