DVN VISION Congress Report
The 11th biennial VISION Congress was last Wednesday-Thursday at La Cité des Sciences in Paris with 550 attendees. It was a content-rich, worthy event with: Three keynotes by VIP speakers…
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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.
Two Interviews, Two Perspectives
This week we bring you two unique interviews, one with BMW’s exterior lighting development chief Jörg Kälble, and the other with Indian lighting tier-1 Neolite ZKW’s CEO Rajesh Soni. Both…
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DVN Interview: Neolite ZKW CEO Rajesh Soni
Rajesh Soni has 25 years’ professional experience in vehicle lighting with the Neolite Group. Over the years, he’s held positions in business development; sales and marketing; strategic alliances; customer management, and R&D. Presently he’s in charge as CEO of the Neolite Group’s vehicle lighting business and leads three operational units; one greenfield project, and the…
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DVN Interview: BMW’s Jörg Kälble
DVN’s Wolfgang Huhn and Hector Fratty had the chance to welcome BMW’s exterior lighting development chief Jörg Kälble for a talk about technologies and new functions. Herewith, his thoughts: On the future of lasers in vehicle lighting:Due to its technical advantages—very high light intensity with minimal light exit surface—laser will always have a future in light…
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DVN and GTB Meet with CASIC in Geneva
The China Automobile Standards Internationalisation Centre (CASIC), with headquarters at CATARC in Tianjin, formally opened its Geneva office in June 2022 and Geoff Draper’s interview with Xie Dongming, Deputy Director of CASIC, was published in the DVN Newsletter of 02 August. The mission of CASIC is: Promote China’s automobile industries and relevant institutes to participate…
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VISION Congress: A Grand Conference
The 11th biennial VISION Congress was a highly worthy, content-rich event.We retain 10 trends: Progress on new lighting functions. Digital projections are an important domain covered by several lectures, including demonstrations that they pose no significant distraction for other road users.Thinner and thinner headlamps. The trend for slim headlamps is supported by remarkable new modules…
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Koito Buy More Cepton Shares
Koito’s Board of Directors have resolved to buy more shares of Cepton, a company who design; manufacture, and sell lidar for ADAS and autonomous driving. AD and AV require highly accurate sensors such as lidars; cameras, and millimetre-wave radars to monitor the equipped vehicle’s surroundings. Koito respond to this need by developing solutions to support…
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New Czechia Tech Centre for Lumax-DK Jain Group
Lumax Industries has inaugurated a new technology centre in Czechia, through wholly-owned subsidiary Lumax Industries Czechia. The new centre will develop innovative lighting technologies and systems for the Indian market. It is equipped with a state-of-the-art photometry tunnel and goniometer; a fully ESD-protected electronic laboratory, and dedicated spaces for prototyping and benchmarking. Lumax chair and managing director…
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GM Fix Recalled Headlamps With Clever Sticker
This past Spring, we reported on NHTSA deciding GM would have to recall about three-quarters of a million GMC Terrain SUVs with headlamps that put a streak of stray light 80° outboard and 45° above horizontal. GM had made a practical case that this stray light’s extremely high/outboard angle meant it couldn’t realistically intersect another…
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Valeo Show Strong Q3 Sales Growth
In the third quarter of 2022, Valeo’s sales were up 33 per cent to €5.26bn. The Comfort & Driving Assistance Systems business group outperformed global automotive production by 9 percentage points, thanks to strong momentum in ADAS. To date, Valeo have produced around 13 million front cameras since the business was first created. The Visibility…
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