Ever-higher costs could diminish the number of major Japanese car makers to just three or four by 2021, according to automotive research firm Kelley Blue Book.
In the 19 April DVN newsletter I reported that GRE adopted the proposal developed by its Informal Working Group to simplify the UN lighting and light signalling
Kamislav Fadel graduated from École Supérieure d’Optique in 1991. In May of that year, he joined Valeo at their Bobigny, France lighting headquarters as a Junior Lighting Expert; eventually he became Senior Manager of Lighting Design. In April 2001, he joined Renault as their Lighting R&D Manager, and in September 2007 he joined Automotive Lighting as R&D Vice President at the company’s HQ in Reutlingen, Germany. Fadel has made his entire career in the vehicle lighting field, and has tackled challenges on the supplier and OEM side of things with great success. He is truly a lighting visioneer and has contributed greatly to the launch of innovative LED lighting on premium cars, including presiding over the fitment of LED headlamps with HID-level performance. Now he’s R&D Director at Hella, and he was kind enough to talk with us.
DVN: What do you retain from your experience at your former companies?
Kamislav Fadel: The experiences I had with the 3 companies where I worked were very fruitful. From Valeo I learnt what was lighting, optics design with optical calculation, simulations and everything concerning design. It was a passionate time because I had the possibility to build optical surfaces and to perfectly know what is a headlamp and a rear lamp.
The annual SAE Congress recently took place at Detroit’s Cobo Center. Lighting and ADAS content isn’t what it once was—without meaning to blow our own horns
Oliver Schubert has replaced Hubert Schuhleitner as CEO of Zizala Lichtsysteme.
Magneti Marelli put up an exhibition at Auto China, on the theme of “New Roads for Innovation”. Products were on display from all of the company’s business areas,
Stefan Knirsch, Audi’s Board Member for Technical Development, recently had some comments on Audi’s progress and plans for autonomous motoring:
Younger drivers are more likely than their older counterparts to trust autonomous-car technology, according to a study by J.D. Power.
Philips will sell off a chunk of their lighting division through an IPO (initial public offering of stock). The firm had already indicated that an IPO in equity market
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