Don’t Miss the Shanghai DVN Workshop—Wherever You Be!
This week I bring three important messages for all my colleagues here in the DVN community: 1. Next week’s Shanghai DVN Workshop has been carefully organised to facilitate both live…
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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.
Behind the Scenes: All Hands On Deck
There have been 21 DVN Workshops before, and while every one has been bigger and better than before, none of them has been so tricky and difficult as this one…
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Huhn is Keynote Speaker for Shanghai DVN Workshop
In his keynote, Wolfgang will talk about some personal highlights of his 20 years as the head of Audi lighting development, including the daytime running lights strategy, his first success where LED-DRL was used as brand signature, the world’s first full LED headlamp, the safety-crucial matrix beam, and the surprising OLED rear lamps. He will…
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Session 1 at DVN Workshop: Large Panel of Automakers
Seven speakers from carmakers will present their achievements and their wish lists to improve safety and style. In a period where budget and buzz are dedicated to EVs and AVs, it will be interesting to learn how lighting could help with fatality reduction and and propose solutions to designers to differentiate their cars’ appearance. S-VW’s…
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Session 2 at DVN Workshop: Setmakers’ Tech for Safety & Style
Seven of the leading first tier suppliers on the Chinese market will present their safety and style improving technologies—five of them live on stage, and two with prerecorded contributions. In the first lecture, Hasco Vision’s well-known Vice General Manager Jinlong Ao will talk about his strategy “beyond lighting” which gives an overview about different high…
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Session 3 at DVN Workshop: Great Changes in Vehicle Interiors
Interior displays have become the centrepiece of the car cockpit, and the interaction between the driver and the car (HMI) is key to user experience and safety. Progressively, more automation brings new vehicles to L2 and L2+ thanks to ADAS technologies. It will include self-driving periods (motorway, traffic jams) and manual driving scenarios, where management…
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Session 4 at DVN Workshop: “High Tech Lighting Regulation”
This will be the 18th in the series of DVN Regulatory Sessions, bringing together the newly launched China Automobile Standards Internationalisation Centre (CASIC), based in Geneva, and five of the major leaders from the Chinese SAC/TC114/SC21 Committee responsible for the drafting of the GB Standards, and GTB along with its Chinese member C-GTB. The session…
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Session 5 at DVN Workshop: Promising LED and ADB Evolution
During this session, four leading tier-2 suppliers will give their view on the future development of LED front lighting technology. In line with the technology trends in the market, the topic of digital lighting will get top coverage. On the other hand, one presentation will also reach out to “invisible” light as a new field…
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Session 6 at DVN Workshop: Skills Needed for High Tech Lighting
Future exterior lighting applications are becoming more and more complex. On the one hand these complex systems require vision and top-down system architecture, and on the other hand bottom-up innovation from specialist companies to provide solutions to make the new advanced lighting systems possible.The first presentation will be done by AML, which will be represented…
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Luminar, Volvo Will Offer Self-Drive System to Automakers
Luminar Technologies and Zenseact, the self-driving software subsidiary of Volvo Cars will coöperate to offer a combination hardware-software system to other automakers. Luminar make a self-driving lidar which uses laser light to help cars gain a three-dimensional view of their surroundings. Volvo plan to use Luminar’s sensors in their vehicles with production starting next year.Zenseact…
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