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Things will be tougher for the auto industry in 2012 than 2011, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler has told Reuters in an interview. “But this should not be a reason
The U.S. auto sales rate in December is expected to top 13 million on an annual basis for the fourth consecutive month, indicating uncertainty about
Rising employment, better credit availability, new products and urgency to replace aging vehicles will drive U.S. auto sales higher in 2012, forecasters say.
It is with great regret that DVN have to inform all the lighting community that our colleague Martin Haub passed away on December 24th.
Daniel Stern, DVN Global Editor
Much has been written about the kind of light that comes from LED headlamps: They look nifty; they have a high colour temperature, they give off a blue-white light, they appear brighter than halogens for any given intensity, and (lest we forget!) that long-serving, oft-recycled marketing slogan, they’re “closer to natural daylight”. Fact is, though, artificial light produced by a non-blackbody source—that is, by something other than a glowing filament—usually isn’t much like natural daylight at all. And it looks as though the light we’ve been making so far with LED headlamps may not be the best kind for headlamps. Automotive Lighting’s Dr. M. Hamm presented at ISAL this past September a paper raising unsettling new questions about LED headlamps as they’ve been made so far: “…LED threshold detection appears to be significantly weaker than halogen. The reasons are unknown, a first explanation could be the differing spectral power distribution leading to different visual acuity and thus increased thresholds.” Dr. Hamm takes care to be clear that this preliminary finding requires more investigation before it can be considered a fact with an established causal chain, and indubitably he and his estimable colleagues will carry on with the kinds of research needed to scrutinise the matter thoroughly.
AL-Automotive Lighting have developed an application for Apple iPhones, the first to provide integrated torch functionality with visualisation
Building on the progressive success of the VISION congress series since 2002, SIA (French Society of Automotive Engineers) will host
Wolfgang Egger, 48, is Head of Audi Group Design . Starting 1 February 2012, he will also take operational charge of design of the Audi brand.
The days of interior lighting consisting of a few overhead lamps, dashboard control and display lighting, and perhaps a bulb in the glovebox
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