Editorial – Lighting

I had the opportunity to visit Audi last week and try a night drive with the A7 and the A8. Neither car has much really newly innovative lighting functions or…

DVN will start 2018 with an event celebrating the first decade of DVN Workshops. 
Our first DVN Workshop was in Germany Stuttgart in 2008, with just 20 attendees, Ten years…

Not long ago one of my friends, recently home from vacation in Japan, said, “Hector, Europe is far behind the Japanese vehicle lighting industry. I saw headlamps which always provide…

Self-driving cars are coming; that’s very clear. They won’t predominate on the roads of even the richest countries in the near future, though; human-driven cars will carry on being the…

I was invited by Jaguar-Land Rover to Gaydon, England, to night-drive their two new models: the Land Rover Discovery (both fixed LED and AFS versions) and the Range Rover Velar…

This week we bring you a special report for DVN from GTB President Geoff Draper detailing the activities underway in GTB and in the GRE group responsible for working to…

DVN got started in 2006. For the first two years weekly newsletters and monthly reports went out to a very small number of Gold members who knew me by association…

ISAL 2017 was held last week in Darmstadt.As I said at the opening of the first session, which I chaired: the huge number of attendees, almost 1,000, and the very…

This week I’m excited to present in-depth coverage of Valeo’s Visibility business group, mainly about R&D. Our presentation is based on my visit to Bobigny, where these activities are centred,…