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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.

Vehicle Lighting Materials from Dow Corning

Corning companies have a long history with automotive lighting; the Corning Conaphore universal headlamp lens was widely installed in the

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Lighting News

Western Designers Help China Style Development

Former Mini design boss Gert Hildebrand is working to provide “distinctiveness in styling, but also in brand values and differentiation” at

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High-Spec mm-Wave Radar from Denso

Denso have announced a new high-performance millimetre-waveradar with longer and broader detection range to improve the

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Swiss R&D, Test for Face Tracker

The École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland is developing a tool to use a driver’s facial information to make the cars of the

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Car Crashes Kill 1,200,000 a Year: UN SecGen

In his message marking the ‘World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims’, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted

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VW to Pour Money on Cars

VW Group will spend €50bn on their automotive division in the next three years. The plan also includes the newly consolidated MAN and

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A Million BMWs in China?

BMW expect to sell a million cars in China in the next three years, a BMW spokeswoman has told Automotive News Europe .

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Renault-Dongfeng Car Build JV in China?

Renault may launch a joint venture to build cars in China with Dongfeng Motor Group, the country’s second-largest automaker. The two

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Editorial - Lighting

Happy ZKW in Happy Austria

Compared to a very bad situation in Europe generally, Austria is doing very well with just 4% unemployment—in Europe as a whole, excluding Germany, unemployment is over 10%. Last week…

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ZKW’s 2012 Launches Show High-Spec Tech

The strategy of ZKW is oriented toward premium cars and innovative generalist car makers and the new products launched in 2012 in Weisselburg demonstrate this point:

• January: Scania R-Klass truck
Standard: 2 pockets with H7 bulbs
Optional: HID in low beam with a reflector—probably one of the last reflector HIDs
DRL outboard, close to turn Indicator
ZKW have a long experience with HID on trucks mainly with MAN.
The two main reasons for truckmakers to go to HID are reliability and the total life cost.

• March: BMW 3 Series

ZKW produce all the 3 Series headlamps.
Standard: Halogen
1 st option: BiXenon
2 nd option: BiXenon with AFS and Glare-Free High beam

• April: Mercedes-Benz SL Class

HID with LED cornering light
the next facelift will use the empty space at the bottom to fit an IR emitter

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