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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.

Marelli, CEA-LETI in Tinker Project: See it at DVN Lidar Conference

The Tinker Project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and started in October 2020, involves 15 top EU innovation performers—industrial companies; research specialists; consultancies, and service associations—from eight European countries.www.project-tinker.eu Marelli’s activity with CEA-LETI on the Tinker Project is motoring along, taking up the challenge to develop a reliable; accurate; functional;…

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Zvision Lidar on Baidu Apollo RT6

Baidu’s Apollo RT6 will be equipped with a new generation of blind compensation lidar from Zvision, to promote multi-scene applications and comprehensively improve the vehicle’s perception capabilities while driving autonomously without input from a human. The RT6 has Baidu’s latest unmanned driving system, which has a stronger L4 autonomous driving capability than the previous model…

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Forvia Materi’act to Develop, Produce Sustainable Materials

Forvia have created Materi’act as a new brand to develop and manufacture sustainable materials on a greatly increased scale and pace. Materi’act develops, sources, produces, and sells materials with up to 85-per-cent CO2 reduction versus current materials. The range of products includes recycled; bio-based, and carbon-capturing compounds; bio-based foils; low-CO2 carbon fibers, and green steel…

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One visit Last Week; Two DVN Events in the Next Two Months

In today’s newsletter, we look at three significant events: Last week‘s special exhibition at Audi’s museum: “The Speed of Light”,showing the past and the future of vehicle lighting. You’ll find…

HELLA Digital HL: CES 2023 Innovation Award

HELLA receives the CES 2023 Innovation Award in the category “Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility” as “Honoree” for its digital, chip-based headlamp system “Solid State Lighting | High Definition” (SSL | HD).HELLA’s SSL | HD technology represents the evolutionary further development of LED matrix systems: with this innovation, the light source is further miniaturized so…

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AMS Osram’s New Network

AMS Osram have launched a new Global Partner Network of design consultancies; module suppliers and supporting component manufacturers to accelerate customers’ time to market and facilitate new business opportunities while leveraging the latest optical and sensor technologies. Partners are selected based on their technical expertise; product offerings, and track record of working with customers to…

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Tesla Issue OTA “Recall” Fix for Failing Taillights

Over 321,000 Tesla cars are being recalled in the United States, because their taillights only work some of the time. In a filing with NHTSA, Tesla disclosed the recall covers ‘some’ 2023 Model 3 and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles. An over-the-air update will be pushed to correct the rear light failure, which is said to…

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