50 Years of Lightstyling report
A Half-Century of Vehicle Lighting Design Front and rear lamps have long played a big part in the evolution of car design, influencing and being influenced by the form of…
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Hector Fratty
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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.
50 Years of Lightstyling
From 1970 to 2020, automotive styling has been highly influenced by lighting innovations, with reciprocal propulsion from the fields of optics, materials, thermics, electronics, simulation, testing, light sources, and regulations.…
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Innovations which Summarize Relation Lighting/Styling
Headlamps and Rear lamps played a big part in the evolution of the car: slope of the front, shape and contour of the headlamps and rear lamps, show case effect,…
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The new OLED technology of the Audi Q5
The next generation of OLED lighting technology is available for the first time in the facelift Q5. OLEDs are particularly efficient OLED in the emission of a homogeneous area light.…
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New Opel Mokka’s New LED Lamps
Opel have revealed the second generation of their brisk-selling compact Mokka. The new Mokka arrives in the B-segment with top innovations that until recently have only been available in the…
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Innovative Lighting on the Nio ES8
Nio say their new ES8 brings more than 180 product improvements including their Nio Pilot ADAS and their NOMI in-car AI. The new ES8 has sweeping turn signals, upgraded LED tail…
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Materion to Buy Balzers
US-based Materion will buy Optics Balzers in an all-cash transaction. Optics Balzers, with headquarters in Liechtenstein and sites in Germany and Malaysia, have been generating revenue of around USD $67m annually…
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Hella, Minth Build New China JV
Hella and the Minth Group have agreed to establish a joint venture, to be called Hella Minth Jiaxing Automotive Parts. The new company will work on development, production, and marketing…
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Osram Foresee Recovery After Q3-20
The pandemic has caused numerous companies—including Osram—to withdraw or reduce their business outlook and guidance. Now Osram have an updated business guidance for their fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 to…
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U.S. investigates Kia headlight failures
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating reports of headlight failures in nearly 400,000 Kia Sorento SUVs. NHTSA say they received 74 reports of sudden, unexpected loss of…
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