Ingolf Schneider has been in lighting at Opel for a quarter-century. DVN asked him a quartet of questions about what he’s seen and done over that time. His answers herewith:
DVN: Ingolf, can you look back and tell us what your work was like in 1989?
Ingolf Schneider: 1989 was a time which some of today’s colleagues cannot imagine. We developed cars and lamps with pencils, compasses and straight-edges! We did not have computers and groups of 10 people had only one phone. The lighting group at Opel was one project engineer and four designing engineers. My starting project as a designing engineer was the Corsa B Combo taillamp and the Calibra lamps. All with incandescent bulbs, as LED technology didn’t yet exist for cars. Now there are a lot of cars in the field about which I could tell some stories regarding the lighting development.