New DVN Lighting Consultants
The DVN team are happy to have welcomed three new senior consultants to our team from January 2024. Eric Blusseau brings his great knowledge about lighting regulations; Hans Schwabe his…
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ZKW Headlamp on New Audi Q8
The Q8 comes with LED headlamps as standard, with optional HD Matrix lamps with 24 LEDs and one high-performance laser diode on each side of the car. As a special innovation, four different digital daytime running light signatures can be selected. The basis for this is a daytime running light cover with a double microstructure,…
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The new 2025 BMW M4 CS
BMW has just revealed the new 2025 M4 CS, and it bears really interesting lamp technology. The rear lamps were presented at events including DVN Munich and CES 2024, and now we focus on the headlamp and its yellow daytime running light, which gives the car a different look. This is not the first car…
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DVN India: One Day Left in Call for Papers
The India DVN Workshop will be on 4-5 September this year, and tomorrow, 15 May is the last day to submit a paper for consideration. Feel free to email us…
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New IIHS Partial-AD Ratings: Industry Has Work To Do
Partial driving automation is a convenience meant to make long drives easier, but humans are terrible at passively paying attention as required by these more-or-less L2 systems. There’s no evidence they make driving safer, and they can create new risks by setting up the perfect conditions for the driver’s attention to wander. That’s why it…
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Beijing Autoshow DVN Report Goes Live
We have just released our detailed Beijing Autoshow report about the new vehicles presented last week. This event was the biggest event of 2024 for our automotive industry, with all…
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Beijing Motor Show: Behind the Scenes
By Wolfgang Huhn My main takeaways from the Beijing Motorshow 2024: Cell phone manufacturers are becoming automakers. They are counted on the stock exchange as high-tech, not as car manufacturers (like Tesla). The cell phone companies take care of the electronics platform, including the all-important infotainment, as well as the batteries and all the software.…
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Plastic Films in Mobility
Around 200 people gathered in Würzburg, Germany, at the Plastic Films in Mobility conference on 23-24 April to talk about the design and technology trends in automotive interior and exterior applications. The conference chair committee put a diverse panel together which covered the entire value chain, from film production, the associated printing and film forming…
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Creat, THN-Ohm on Factors in Licence Plate Light R&D Simulation
Daniel Karg, Alexander von Hoffmann, Matthias Groß, and Yasen Yakimov from the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm have a new paper about photometric criteria to take into account for the design of registration plates. The work was carried out at automotive engineering-services company Creat, in Ingolstadt. While plate lights usually don’t get marquee billing, they’re an important…
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OLEDWorks Atala Lights for Audi Q8
OLEDWorks’ Atala OLED technology is included in the exterior lighting of the newly upgraded Audi Q8, in the form of digital OLEDs in the taillights. Six panels span the rear of the car, each less than 1 mm thick—one each in the left and right lamps, and four panels in the full-width light band across…
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