Editorial – Lighting

For decades, our automotive lighting community has benefited from the work and lectures of exceptional whole-career experts like Wolfgang Huhn (DVN Person of the Decade 2000-’09), Rainer Neumann (DVN Person…

Every DVN reader knows automotive lighting technologies are developing very fast, with an attendant increase in R&D workload. In an editorial published a year ago, I described an increase of…

These pages are frequently filled with descriptions from every angle of the unprecedented—and accelerating—rate of evolution in the technology and technique of vehicular lighting. We also cover the world’s regulatory…

A year ago, Christian Amann from BMW asked me to lead a study on the future of the automotive lighting market. Ralf Schäfer, Jean-Paul Charret, and I started to visit…

ADB—adaptive driving beam/glare-free high beam—will be used more and more in the world and is the technology of the future. The main reasons are the long-awaited reconciliation to the age-old…

I’m just back from a 10-day trip to China and Korea. Each time I visit China, I can see increasingly visible progress in building houses, roads, and railways—travelling by train,…

The latest edition of renowned French motor magazine “Auto Journal” contained a piece on the new Audi A8 focusing on three high points of the car, foremost of which is…

Day after day, we are confirming that the automotive lighting community is working better and more cohesively than ever before. Two weeks ago, a fine group of us raised glassed…

The VISION scientific and organization committee meetings were held last week. One of the targets was to choose presentations from the 74 proposed abstracts. The selection of the ADAS abstracts…