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Hyundai Mobis have been swatted with US$2.57m in fines and corrective orders for demanding lower prices from their subcontractors.
Opel/Vauxhall’s new design chief designate Dave Lyon has left General Motors less than a week before scheduled to take up the post. Lyon was due to replace current Opel design boss Mark Adams on Wednesday.
Ford are recalling 424,000 Escapes in the United States because a cruise control defect may cause the throttle to stick, leading to unintended acceleration.
After just under 77 years, Toyota have made their two hundred millionth vehicle, counting from their first Model G1 truck in August 1935 at Toyoda Automatic Loom Works’ Automotive Department, which was spun off and later became ToMoCo.
The DVN Tokyo Workshop presented a unique opportunity for GTB President Geoff Draper to gather the views of representatives of JASIC, MLIT/NTSE, JAMA, JAPIA, JELMA, the Chinese CATARC organisation, Audi and Visteon. The rubric was “How the approach to global harmonisation of lighting and light-signalling regulation needs to be changed to encourage the introduction of new technologies and to support manufacturers to be competitive without compromising safety”.
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Chairing the panel discussion, Draper introduced the session by welcoming the following distinguished experts Takayuki Amma (Koito) — Chairman of the JAPIA Lighting Committee Teruyoshi Fujita (Toyota) — Chairman of the JAMA Lighting Committee Wolfgang Huhn, (Audi) — providing the views of a European car manufacturer Rainer Neumann (Visteon) — presenting the views of a European T1 supplier Yuki Tsukada (NTSE Lab) — presenting the views of Japan’s Ministry of Transport Ushio Ueno (JASIC) — Executive Director Tatsumi Yoshida (JELMA) — Chairman, Automotive Bulb Technical Committee Yuntang He (CATARC) — providing written contribution
To launch the discussion, Geoff Draper identified four main emerging themes:
1. Product Innovation
New technologies and their convergence present new regulatory challenges for regulators. Vehicle lighting and signalling has evolved as a complex vehicle system involving LED light sources, sophisticated optical systems, sensors and data processors operating together to produce driver assistance systems. Regulation is required to assure that safety is not compromised by poor systems.
2. Commercial Considerations
Innovative solutions sell cars and provide a competitive advantage but frequently innovation and the need to regulate are in conflict.
Seat have moved the Leon upmarket with a sportier look, new interior designs and—yes—LED headlamps, a first for a mass-market compact, according to the automaker.
Second source is the term given to the possibility of using different suppliers for a product in a particular project or for a product series. It should be possible for the products to be incorporated in onrunning production without incurring additional costs.
NXP Semiconductors have a compact new LED product for ambient lighting applications in vehicles. The UJA1018 is designed for local-interconnect networks and is the first application-specific standard product with node position detection for ambient lighting.
Molex LED solutions on printed circuit board (PCB) substrates are designed to meet high volume manufacturing requirements in the automotive industry.
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