Editorial – Lighting

It is always interesting to see what’s happening outside the office and on the other side of the walls, isn’t it? Why reinvent the wheel; why start from scratch if…

Since we announced the first DVN Conference on automotive lidar, we’ve had very enthusiastic feedback from the vehicle lighting and lidar communities. Over 70 companies have already confirmed their participation!…

Last week, we reported the publication of NHTSA’s proposed regulation on ADB. This week we take a first in-depth look at the proposal and some of its implications. It’s good…

Two great events heve been held in the very fine October weather in Paris: the Mondial motorshow and the VISION congress. For me, highlights of VISION included: Top-class lectures, including…

ADAC statistics published last week show a big decrease in fatal car crashes at night in Germany—and this nighttime decrease is much bigger than the daytime decrease. This week’s in-depth…

Since the advent of incandescent light sources, there have been three big shifts in the appearance of vehicle front lights—four, if we include the arrival of aerodynamic headlamps in America,…

SIA’s VISION congress for 2018 is set to be the best-ever version, an action-packed extravaganza of lighting and ADAS technology and technique. New LEDs, lasers, ADB systems, LCD, DMD, microöptics,…

Like I do every two or three years, I recently visited the ZKW facilities in Wieselburg, meeting R&D VIPs including the Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Ralf Klädtke. I was impressed…

SIA—Societé des Ingénieurs de l’Automobile, the French Society of Automotive Engineers—asked me to write an editorial for the September issue of the SIA magazine. I sought to highlight the great…