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Two major international cooperation and harmonization meetings will take place at the ITS World Congress in Detroit next month, focusing on connected vehicle technology and its potential benefits
BCG, Boston Consulting Group, look at annual TSR (total shareholder return) after the 2009 recession in their study, “ The 2014 Automotive Value Creators Report: A Comeback in the Making ,”
AvtoVAZ seek to return to profit by clawing back market share that has been slipping away from the producer of Lada vehicles, CEO Bo Andersson said at the Moscow auto show.
By Daniel Stern, DVN General Editor
From designers and engineers to researchers and regulators, it seems every sector of our community is abuzz about matrix-beam headlamps. They’re regarded as the cutting-edge technique for realising an adaptive driving (or glare-free high) beam, which in turn is considered a technological holy grail to resolve the longstanding conflict between seeing and glare with headlamps at night.
Now from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research, both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. comes an idea for a headlamp system that could leapfrog matrix beams as we know them today. Their recently published a paper entitled “Programmable Automotive Headlights” describes a system of much finer resolution, much faster response, much lower latency, and much more versatile functionality than even today’s high-end matrix beam systems and raster-scanning spinning-mirror concepts. The researchers say their system not only can produce an excellent nonglare high beam, but can also improve drivers’ seeing in snowstorms, provide a dynamic waypath by lighting a driver’s lane more brightly than adjacent lanes, provide high-contrast lighting of lane markings and sidewalks, and provide advance warning of obstacles. The system, which is a big advance over previously-reported concepts from the Carnegie Mellon team (1 and 2) includes an image sensor, processing unit, spatial light modulator, and beam sensor.
In building the forthcoming DVN report on matrix beam technology (watch for it to be released on 23 September), we interviewed major actors in this sector of the field. Here, as a preview, is an excerpt from our interview with Hans–Theo Dorissen,
By Daniel Stern, Chief Editor.
Over a hundred years ago, the big innovation in vehicular lighting was its very existence. Gas-flame headlamps, they were, fuelled by acetylene created en route by drizzling water on canned calcium carbide,
Misuse of high-beam headlamps is endemic in China; many drivers use their high beams even in dense traffic, without regard for the resultant danger and disomfort. Now, police in the Guangdong Province city of Shenzhen are trying something of a Biblical,
Volvo Car have released new pictures of the redesigned XC90 SUV they plan to release in 2016. These show a new LED headlamp with a prominent white LED DRL array. Volvo call this a “Thor’s Hammer” design, invoking the ancient
At Moscow Automechanika, Vosla—a bulb manufacturer recently spun off from Narva, the Plauen-based operation purchased and modernised by Philips in the 1990s upon German reunification—showed a new blue-glass version of the HIR2 (9012) bulb.
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