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Ray Hammond is a successful business leader and entrepreneur. He is the author of 17 books about the future, a body of work which he began in 1980 and which stands as testament to the long-term dependability of his foresight. We sat down with him to talk about mobility trends and how they’ll affect the lighting and ADAS industries.
DVN: You are known for providing a view of the future which is both visionary and of practical use for a business environment. Can we already describe today how transport and travel industries will change and look like by 2030?
Ray Hammond: Inter-communicating, fully robotic cars that can safely navigate public roads unsupervised will be a reality by 2020 (although they won’t be widely deployed by that date).
It’s also highly likely that within a decade electric cars will have batteries that can power family vehicles for 500 miles on a single mains-supply charge and which can be recharged in a few minutes, while hydrogen-powered electric cars may be providing similar performance. Therefore, many pundits predict that digitally-equipped, robotic electric vehicles made by a new set of software-oriented manufacturers are the near-term future of road transport.
Last week’s lecture on lighting, introduced by DVN’s Hector Fratty and given by Renault’s Paul-Henri Matha and PSA’s Laurent Serezat, gathered.
SAE’s Active Safety Systems Symposium was held on 4-5 November in Plymouth, Michigan, USA.
Jake Fisher from Consumers Union (publisher of popular American product-review magazine Consumer Reports),
In the last 10 years light functions in automotive rear lamps have changed a lot, with one exception: The retroreflectors (reflex reflectors) and their integration in rear lamp styling
Valeo have developed a combined laser and LED headlight system they say will be launched at the end of 2016 in a premium model. In the combined system, a laser diode beam is added to the LED
OSRAM industry faces strong trends and opportunities: Urbanization, Demographic Change, Digitalization, Infrastructure, Safety/Security, Mobility.
It has 4 activities :
Osram have announced an investment of €3bn by 2020, in line of becoming a semiconductor company following the planned disposal of their traditional lamps and light bulbs business.
Audi and the city of Somerville—near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachussetts, want to develop a strategy for the transport infrastructure of the city.
Mobileye are pursuing a one-camera-for-all-functions strategy.
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