DVN Tokyo Workshop Report Goes Live
The 5th DVN workshop was held on 4 July and was a smashing success, well attended by more than 130 experts from all sectors of the lighting and driver assistance…
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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.
DVN Tokyo Regulations Panel Talk
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”.
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 Presenting the views of a European Car Manufacturer
Rainer Neumann ,Visteon Presenting the views of a Europe Equipment Maker
Yuki Tsukada, NTSE Lab Presenting the views of the Japan. MinistryTransport
Ushio Ueno, JASIC Executive Director
Tatsumi Yoshida, JELMA Chairman of Tech. Com. for Automotive Bulbs
Yuntang He, CATARC CATARC China, written contribution
Presentation of GTB
GTB comprises experts from vehicle manufacturers, system manufacturers, light source manufacturers, testing laboratories, regulatory groups and academia, working to assure traffic safety through the efficient adaptation to technical progress of the regulations relating to automotive lighting systems and their installation
 GTB 113th Session – Copenhagen – May 201 |
To launch the discussion, 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. Vehicle manufacturer’s need to launch an innovation to gain a competitive advantage and are not prepared to provide the details necessary to formulate an amendment. This results in an increasing trend to find an interpretation of the existing text of a regulation that leads to potential conflict as administrations will not always agree on an interpretation of another administration and this results in competition distortion.
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DVN Tokyo: Round Table 3 on Mechatronics & Electronic
| Ralf Schäfer, chairman |
There were three Tier-2 companies addressing the rubric “Mechatronics and Electronics” as suppliers during this round-table discussion: AML and Sonceboz dealing
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Koito to Open Factory in Mexico
Koito will build a production site in Mexico where Japanese automakers’ new plants are springing up at an accelerating rate. Japan’s largest automotive lamp manufacturer
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Hella Lights for BMW X6
Hella HID headlamps, rear lamps, fog lamps, and interior lighting help to provide a facelift for the BMW X6 shown at Geneva and launched last month.
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Car Lighting as Eco Innovation
Clepa’s LightSightSafety Initiative has prepared a paper about innovative technologies in car lighting applications with its power consumption savings vs. current
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New Driver Aid: Co-Pilot On Duty
Researchers at the MIT, Massachussetts Institute of Technology have come forth with a new semi-autonomous crash avoidance system that leaves full control of the
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New Midrange Radar Sensor from Bosch
Bosch have completed development of a new 77 GHz medium-range radar (MRR) for mass production. Its main advantage is low cost compared to the current long-range
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New TRW DAS Ready for 2014 EuroNCAP
TRW have unveiled two new additions to their range of Driver Assistance Systems (DAS), which will enable it to meet the more stringent active and pedestrian safety
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New DAS from Ford
Ford are currently developing a new generation of driver assistance systems to provide solutions to the challenges posed by the growing demand for personal mobility and
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