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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 : Van den Acker «Light is Life»

Renault Senior VP and Design Chief Laurens Van den Ackers opened VISION congress with a wonderful keynote speech focused on lighting. He presented the strategy and the organisation of Renault,

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VISION : RVP to Quantify Lighting Safety Benefit

An interesting lecture in last week’s VISION Congress was presented by John Bullough from the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He described a research method for looking

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Significant milestone to intelligent headlamps

Osram Opto and its partners on the μAFS research project have reached the important first milestone – a new LED chip with the hitherto unrivaled array of 256 light pixels. Up to now, pixel systems have been based on a large number of individual LEDs.

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Plastic LED Work Lights from Hella

Hella have launched a new “Thermo Pro” range of LED work lights with housings made of a thermally conductive plastic which, being plastic, is also corrosion-proof. This is a considerable advantage particularly in agriculture or construction

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Pedestrian Protection’s Front-End Implications

It is well known that Pedestrian Protection has significantly changed vehicle front-ends, in many cases leading to whole new design strategies. Vehicles which do not satisfy UN pedestrian protection requirements

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BMW Laser Lights Prize: Now In Movies

As previously reported in DVN , The BMW i8 Series headlights with laser booster won the second place of the prestigious Berthold Leibinger Fundation 2014 Award focused on innovations in laser technology.

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Valeo Sales Up in Q3-14

Valeo’s original-equipment sales advanced 13% (up 7% on a like-for-like basis, beating globalautomotive production by nearly 7 percentage points, including 20 percentage points inChina and 9 percentage points in Europe).

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ZKW Break Ground for Mexico Plant

Last week, ZKW Group CEO Hubert Schuhleitner and Miguel Marquez Marquez, Governor of the Mexican State of Guanajuato, laid the foundation stone for the new ZKW production plant in Silao, Mexico.

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TI Expand ADAS Offerings

Texas Instruments (TI) have announced the newest member of their automotive system-on-chip (SoC) family, the TDA3x solution. The TDA3x processor family is designed to help car manufacturers develop sophisticated ADAS applications

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Autonomous Monkeyshines on the Autobahn

Surveys tend to show about half the public are ready to trust self-driving cars. But some subset of those people are beyond ready; they’re eager to have the autonomous-car experience right now, today.

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