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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.
VISION 2014 Report: Read, Re-Read, Keep!
For the engineers and experts who could not attend VISION 2014, or for the attendees who did not catch all the information, we are pleased to release today’s report summarising…
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DVN US Workshop Docket
The DVN US Workshop will be held this coming 13 January (2015), with a welcome dinner the evening before. The rubric for the workshop is “Future Lighting Technologies – Techniques and Regulatory Affairs”, and the docket is now released. We will have 19 lectures and a very interesting round table panel discussion chaired by GTB President Geoff Draper.
Keynote: Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan (Carnegie-Mellon University):
Programmable Headlights: One Billion Light Beam Adaptations Per Second
The speaker will explain how researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel have devised a system of much finer resolution, much faster response, much lower latency, and much more versatile functionality than other matrix beam systems and raster-scanning spinning-mirror concepts.
Session 1: Car- and Setmakers’ vision on ADB technologies
GM: Michael Larsen
Adaptive Driving Beam in America
Hella: Hans-Theo Dorissen
ADB – Challenges for the Future
Varroc: Rainer Neumann
Future of ADB considering Light Performance and Regulations
Valeo: John Orisich
US Consumers Deserve Glare Free High Beam Technologies
JW Speaker: Dragan Popovic
Matrix Light Approach to Leaning Problems on Motorcycle Application
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Koito 1-LED Headlamp for Prius Alpha
Koito have announced a single-LED high/low beam headlamp unit will light the driver’s way in the forthcoming Toyota Prius Alpha. Toyota a re calling it the “Baibimu”, a Japanification of “Bi-Beam”.
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Rugged LED headlamps for Top-Selling Truck
Ford have announced their hugely popular F-150 pickup truck will—newly for 2015—have LED headlamps specifically designed for durability. Osram and Flex-N-Gate worked with Ford developing the headlamp unit.
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Osram, Corning Work on Fibre for Light Distribution
Osram Opto Semiconductors and Corning have partnered to drive adoption of a laser-diode-driven solid-state lighting (SSL) product called Fibrance that was demonstrated at the recent Electronica trade fair in Munich.
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LED Bulbs Start Small
First in a series
Automotive light source heavyweights Osram and Philips are now releasing LED retrofits for small incandescent bulbs such as the W5W, 194, and 168 used throughout millions of cars around the world.
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Jewelled S-Class Headlamp is Fashion-Forward
The new Mercedes S-Class coupé already has Intelligent Light System Plus. Now, As an optional extra, the headlamp is exclusively available with 47 high class diamond-like cut Swarovski glass elements to provides a brilliant appearance (and advertise the owner’s wealth).
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Audi Prologue Concept: New Style Direction
The Audi Prologue’s wide grille and thin headlamps are harbingers of elements that will appear on future production cars including the A6, A7 and A8 sedans, the automaker’s new design chief says.
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Lexus LF-C2 Concept Targets Younger Buyers
With the LF-C2, Lexus are tweaking their spindle-shaped grille. The concept was unveiled by Lexus General Manager Jeff Bracken at the Los Angeles auto show this past week.
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