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Extracted from an article by auto expert Helmut Becker, transmitted by Prof. Khahn, TUD
Has the car as a symbol of freedom had its day? Is the car myth over?
Toyota have issued a massive recall of well over six million vehicles worldwide for a range of glitches, from faulty airbags and seat rails to defective windshield wipers.
Beijing Automotive Group, Daimler’s Chinese partner, say they want to buy a “mid- to high-end brand” in Europe or the United States to boost their global presence—and they already have candidates in mind.
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A status report from Geoff Draper – GTB President
Static Levelling of Headlamps
As foreseen in the 18 February 2014 edition of Driving Vision News, the GTB taskforce for the Coordination of Automotive Visibility and Glare Studies (CAVGS) delivered a comprehensive report of its study in a complete afternoon session of GRE on 01 April 2014. Since the decision of GRE, in April 2011, to invite GTB to lead a glare and visibility study, DVN has featured several progress reports of the activities of the GTB Working Groups in conjunction with Prof. Khanh and his team at Darmstadt University.
The presentation to GRE included contributions from the expert representing the Polish government, from OICA and from the CIE TC4-45 committee. The Polish proposal had already been submitted to GRE in 2012 and actively debated. However, at its October 2013 session, GRE invited the Polish expert and GTB to seek a common solution to the question of visibility and glare optimisation in the context of headlamp levelling under loading conditions. It was acknowledged that this would be a challenge because of the different basis and assumptions of the two proposals. The task of GTB, as always, is to submit a proposal for consideration of the contracting parties (the governments) in GRE, who will take the final decisions. GTB does not “impose” decisions upon GRE but, as the international group of lighting experts, has a responsibility to provide and defend its conclusions based upon its experience and adequate objective arguments resulting from research.
In contrast with last year, all the concept cars and newly-unveiled models at the 2014 Geneva Autoshow send a strong message: fun is ahead and the automotive crisis in Europe is now behind us.
OLEDs will eventually bring a raft of exciting new ideas for vehicle lighting design.
Mathieu Lips last week relinquished, to Jean-Phillippe Benoist, his position as head of lighting at Renault to take on a Renault management role.
After BMW announced the first-ever use worldwide of laser light technology in a production vehicle, BMW Motorsport is now also the first manufacturer to compete at a race with this innovation.
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