DVN Study 2021 Goes Live
We’re pleased to announce the DVN 2021 Study is now available. A great deal of thought, effort, and thorough research has gone into it, to mould it into a powerful,…
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DVN Study: Two Prefaces Highlight the Content
The DVN 2021 Study starts with two prefaces which highlight the content; one from Wolfgang Huhn, DVN Study team and former head of lighting and vision systems development at Audi; and the second from Ford’s Vehicle Programs Director Jackie Marshall DiMarco. Both prefaces brim with expertise gained by the authors’ deep and relevant experience in…
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“The Autonomous”: Why Lighting Community should be Involved
The Congress “The Autonomous” took place Oct. 29th in Vienna’s Imperial Palace. The Austrian High-Tech company TTTech with their Co-Founder and congress chairman Ricky Hudi were organizing the event.High level speakers CEOs, CTOs and VPs of important companies like ARM, Audi, BMW, Infineon, CARIAD, Nvidia, Lyft, Virgin Hyperloop, Waymo and many others out of the autonomous…
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Apple Patent ADB-like Visor, Mirror Technique
The swing-down-and-outward sunvisor has been basic vehicle equipment for most of a century. Now, tech companies are looking to improve on this old-time, low-tech solution to glare from direct and reflected sunlight. Last year, Bosch showed their idea for an ADB-like visor replacement. Now Apple want in on the game, as it seems, if one…
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The Cloud Will Change Everything in the Car: Study
Extract from Roland Berger study
The cloud will prevail tomorrow when all vehicles are connected. The technology will change everything. Tomorrow, connected cars will have access to data that will be external to the car, which will be able to consolidate this data to define specific functionalities, depending on the driver’s profile, or the particular settings of a vehicle. The…
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HELLA Designs Light Signature for Peugeot 308
HELLA, together with the car manufacturer Stellantis, has developed a characteristic light signature for both the front and rear lighting of the new Peugeot 308. The central element of the design is in the middle of the radiator grille: the radome, a translucent cover for radar systems, adorns the new Peugeot brand logo. HELLA has…
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Cree Are Now Called Wolfspeed
Cree have announced a corporate name change to Wolfspeed, which has served as the brand for the company’s silicon carbide materials and semiconductor devices business unit for the past six years. CEO Greg Lowe says the company “are now a pure-play global semiconductor powerhouse; the next generation in power semiconductors will be driven by silicon…
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Nio Hires JLR, VW Designers for Munich Studio
Chinese EV maker Nio, seeking to expand their product range and enter the European market, have hired senior designers from Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen Group.Joaquin Garcia, having spent six years at VW’s SEAT brand and five at Škoda, is now a senior design director at Nio’s Munich design studio. He holds a master’s degree from…
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Hella’s SOS 360° Emergency Lamp
Retroreflective red warning triangles must be carried in every vehicle by law in Europe, but Hella don’t consider that adequate protection—after all, the vehicle itself remains unmarked beyond its hazard warning flashers (if they’re working). That’s the logic behind their new compact SOS 360° LED warning lamp. Car drivers can place the lamp on the…
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Qualcomm, SSW Scoot Past Magna to Buy Veoneer
Chipmaker Qualcomm and SSW Partners, a New York-based investment partnership, are buying Veoneer for USD $37 per share in an all-cash transaction, representing a total equity value for Veoneer of $4.5bn. The deal edges out Canada-based Magna International, who refused to raise their bid for Veoneer; Qualcomm’s offer is an 18 per cent premium to Magna’s $31.25-a-share bid.…
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