TU Darmstadt Lighting Institure Report
The Laboratory of Adaptive Lighting Systems and Visual Perception, known as the Darmstadt Lighting Institute DLI is one of the big contributors for Lighting. The research topics today cover automotive…
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Darmstadt Lighting Deep Dive in Print and Online
Parallel to the 2023 DVN Workshop in Paris, a new DVN Report will be published, the 177th monthly report in the big library we’ve been building for 15 years now.…
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Starting Now: The Greatest DVN Workshop!
After months of effort and planning, today the DVN team are welcoming some 300 attendees and starting this very special DVN Workshop.Never before have we offered a program quite so…
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Volvo EX90: from Pop-Up to Thor´s Hammer
from Paul-Henri Matha
The pop-up lamps are not new.Volvo did these sorts of lamps 40 years ago on the famous Volvo 480! Volvo 480Even before the 1980´s, during the 1960´s, many OEMs, especially…
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Recall Puts Stop to Headlamp-Aimability Safety Threat
Daniel Stern, DVN
It’s happened again: an automaker failed to block off their headlamps’ horizontal aim screws, exposing American drivers to the resultant menace of headlamps that can be adjusted notonly up-down, but also left-right. This time it’s Porsche, who are recalling nearly 200,000 Cayenne; Macan; Cayman S, and Panamera vehicles, from model years 2003 through 2020. We’ve…
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Apple Patents Self-Aiming Headlight System
Headlamp levelling systems have been known for decades, but they can only maintain the initial aim setting dialled in by fallible human beings wielding screwdrivers. But a new U.S. patent just granted to Apple describes a self-adjusting headlighting system with advanced capabilities. The central idea: to make certain the headlamps are properly aligned to provide…
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Mobis Lenticular Grilleboard Light at DVN Workshop
Today at the DVN Paris Workshop, Mobis are describing the future direction of their lighting product development, and unveiling six new future-mobility lighting products. The event will be an opportunity to examine the future direction for Mobis’ lighting product range. Here’s an example: a technology to form the face of EVs: Mobis’ lenticular lighting for…
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Slimline Front, Rear Lights on Changan CS75
The new Changan CS75 Plus has a complex grate shape to the front position light, echoing the shapes in the grille; when illuminated, it presents a high degree of recognition. The geometric light strip surrounds the perimeter of the headlamp to provide the daytime running; position, and direction-indicator light functions. The low and high beam…
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Denso’ New Lidar Uses AMD Technology
In their newest lidar platforms, Denso are using AMD’s adaptive computing technology to increase resolution more than twentyfold at low latency—providing greater accuracy in detecting pedestrians; vehicles; free space, and…
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China sales: Slow increase in 2022
Full year sales increased 2 per cent to 26.86 million units. Passenger vehicle sales rose 9 per cent to 23,563,000 units—driven mainly by surging demand for new-energy vehicles (NEVs), while…
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