End-Of-Year Good Wishes From Your DVN Team
All of us on your DVN team wish you a happy Christmas and a grand break time, to recharge your batteries with energy to start 2024. The DVN team grew…
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2023 in the Mirror: Main Takeaways
By Paul-Henri Matha, DVN COO and Lighting General Editor 2023 was a long year, with a lot of salient events in the vehicle lighting and vision world. We got off to a fine start in January with a combo CES + Paris DVN event, then the Tokyo DVN Workshop, ALE in China, a US Workshop…
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PATAC Optical Lab Launches
PATAC is the Pan-Asian Technical Automotive Centre, a joint venture between General Motors and SAIC. On 15 December, their new optical laboratory was officially launched in Tangzhen Park. PATAC Executive Deputy General Managers Lu Xiao and Wang Conghe; Communisty Party Committee Deputy Secretary and labour union chair Niu Jieling, and directors of relevant departments and…
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BMW’s New Light Tunnel Goes Live
Light Channel Next. That’s the sign on a door indicating the way to the brand new BMW Light Tunnel, which hides in a nondescript industrial building that’s also home to BMW’s factory engineering department. Stefan Weber, Frederic Blanc, Tabea Schluerscheid and Max Dressel from BMW’s Lighting Development Department welcomed DVN’s Wolfgang Huhn to the new…
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CES Preview: Valeo Equipment on Zeekr’s Newest
The latest Zeekr model will be presented at Valeo’s booth. Equipped with a 1.5-cm high Valeo ThinBiLite bifunction front lighting module and two digital panels comprising more than 1,700 LEDs, it offers users a unique, personalized and interactive lighting experience. The same model will be presented at the DVN workship in Munich on 27-28 February, in…
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CES Preview: Marelli’s Intelligent Social Display
At CES next month, Marelli will showcase innovations under the theme ‘Design-Led Innovation’. One of them: their Intelligent Social Displaymessaging feature, designed to support V2x communication. The ISD can indicate when the car is in autonomous mode, signal driver intent, and communicate to pedestrians with messages such as ‘safe to cross’ when approaching an intersection…
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Synopsys Buy Imperas
Imperas, a UK-based verification tool developer, have been bought by Synopsis in a deal closed on 12 December. Imperas founder and former CEO Simon Davidmann is pleased about it: “we are all happy here in Synopsys”, he says. Initial reports focussed on the recent move into verification and modelling IP for RISC-V fir virtual prototyping…
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Green Light for Turquoise Lights: States OK Mercedes AD Lights
Mercedes-Benz has become the world’s first automobile manufacturer to receive permits for special exterior marker lights for automated driving in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. California has granted the automaker a 2-year exemption from rules that would ordinarily prohibit turquoise light, and the Nevada permit applies to Mercedes-Benz Model Year 2026 production vehicles and will remain valid…
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The first L3 models in China announced
Equipped with L3 autonomous driving system, AVATR 11, DEEPAL SL03, and ARCFOX αS have already started running on Beijing and Chongqing high-speed roads. In addition, Mercedes-Benz, which has certified the L3 system abroad, BMW, which has been low-key before, and its own brand IM Motor have obtained the L3 autonomous driving test license. At present,…
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Stellantis, Valeo Launch Reman Windshield-Cam
Stellantis and Valeo took a step toward realising their circular-economy strategic coöperation by launching the first windshield-mounted video camera remanufactured by Valeo at their Circular Electronics Lab in Nevers. This premiere defines the path of Stellantis in being the first carmaker to offer remanufactured video cameras, blazing a trail toward a whole new ‘SustainEra’ reman…
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