A Lidar Community is Born
Last week, fully 102 companies were present at the 2nd DVN Lidar Conference. That’s a new record; never before at a DVN Conference or Workshop have we had so many…
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DVN Lidar Conference at Frankfurt
by Ralf Schäfer and Leo Metzemaekers Last week the second DVN Lidar Conference took place at the Dorint Hotel in Frankfurt Sulzbach. An enormous diversity of companies attended and contributed to the event—automakers, tier-1 and -2 suppliers of lidar and lighting systems and components, materials, and equipment; and researchers from research institutes. Attendees came from…
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Another Roadblock for ADB in the USA
Daniel Stern, Driving Vision News The U.S. Department of Transportation announced late last week that they have adopted the Trump Administration’s de-regulatory agenda as an official operating principle. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, announced she has signed what she called a “rule on rules”. NHTSA is among the agencies affected by the new rule, which codifies…
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Interview Shammi on Jaguar F-Type
Shammika Wickramasinghe is the Technical Specialist for Exterior Lighting, responsible for the technical strategy at Jaguar Land Rover. He has been in the automotive industry since 1998 and was the Section Manager of the Electrical team at Honda UK in the past during the development of the famous 2006 Civic for it’s design of the…
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New IntelliLux Headlamps on Opel Insignia
The newest Opel Insignia can only be had with full-LED lighting. It bears extremely slim headlamps, and can be equipped with the latest version of Opel’s IntelliLux LED Pixel Lights—which now features 84 LED elements per headlamp, rather than just 16. The headlamps react faster, providing optimum vision for Insignia drivers without glare for oncoming…
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Osram: Event in Japan and Future Talks about the future
Last week, OSRAM organized a great customer event in Japan, with full focus on the latest innovations and roadmap for the OEM and Aftermarket. Visitors could enjoy an excellent speech by Audi as a market trendsetter for adaptive and dynamic lighting in the automotive industry. More, the visible and invisible lighting opportunities especially with regards…
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VW Group shakes up design leadership
Volkswagen Group promoted Klaus Bischoff to oversee the automaker’s design activities and named Rolls-Royce’s former design chief, Jozef Kaban, to a similar role at the VW passenger cars brand. Klaus Bischoff Bischoff has been VW brand’s chief designed since 2007. He has spent his entire career at VW Group, holding senior management roles in interior,…
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Design Award for ZKW’s StripeZ
ZKW’s “StripeZ” lighting module has received a German Design Award in the Automotive Parts and Accessories category. The juried German Design Award honours innovative products and their manufacturers and designers who are pioneers in the German and international design landscape. The decisive factor for the jury was the particularly compact design of the lighting element,…
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SiLC, Varroc to Show Production Headlamp With Lidar at CES
SiLC Technologies and Varroc Lighting Systems will demonstrate seamless lidar integration into a production automotive headlamp at CES 2020. The Varroc headlamp is based on a sophisticated production LED design and contains four of SiLC’s silicon photonics FMCW vision chips providing a full 20° × 80° field of view for each headlamp. SiLC’s compact lidar…
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Bill Grabowski Joins Adasky
Adasky have announced automotive product development expert Bill Grabowski has joined their team as a Senior Advisor. Grabowski was recently VP of global innovation scouting and development for Marelli’s Automotive Lighting division; before that he spent decades at FCA, Daimler, and Chrysler, where he held positions in product development including Chief Engineer of the Jeep…
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