Last week was important for the automotive lighting players with two events, NAIAS the Detroit auto show and DVN US workshop in Rochester and during my visit in NAIAS, I was not surprised to meet many attendees at the workshop one day before.
Indeed, the US automotive lighting industry is working hard in innovative solutions. The US lectures at workshop and the headlamps/rear lamps of new models at NAIAS enlight this point.
– In NAIAS we have seen several cars equipped with LEDs as Ford F-150,
– In Rochester, 230 attendees, most of them from US companies, followed several lectures of Larsen, Orisich, Popovic, Novack, Lukacs, Poorman, showing the new level of works led in US.
Thank you for all your positive feedback on the UD DVN workshop. Maybe the nice words of GRE President Marcin Gorzkowski should summarise them :
« Thank you very much for an excellent and extremely valuable workshop.When I was justifying the travel to Rochester, I put this workshop as part of my learning plan. While I was doing this, I had no idea how much educational this workshop will actually be. I learned a lot and the information puts many of my futuristic ideas in different perspective. Your workshop changed my employment plans. I see I can still contribute on the regulatory side of the vehicle lighting equation”.
Honestly, I was also a little ashamed by the necessity to postpone the panel session on regulations because of timing constraints, while many of the attendees expected to attend a nice discussion between the regulation experts.
Due to the interest shown in this subject, it was decided to reschedule it as a teleconference that could engage everyone who had attended the 2015 US workshop in Rochester. Our plan is to hold this teleconference on Thursday 29 January between 09:00 and 12:00 hrs US EST or between 15:00 and 18:00 hrs European Continental time. The frame of the agenda will be:
a) Responses to issues raised during the workshop concerning the US regulatory approach and the status of the Federal Standard FMVSS108. David Hines and Markus Price of NHTSA are very interested to engage with workshop participants and discuss issues raised.
b) Questions relating to the lectures by Stephan Berlitz, Bart Terburg and Mike Flannagan.
c) The panel session that will address the synchronisation of technical requirements between the UN and US systems by addressing the questions;
- How do self certification systems influence the formulation of Lighting and Light-Signalling technical provisions?
- What are the unacceptable aspects of the UN technical provisions that have to be addressed?
- How should we move forward to synchronise these provisions?
We expect that this unique DVN teleconference will be of interest to the US workshop attendees and to many of our readers. So please keep your diaries free and look out for more information that will be published in the next few days about the practical aspects of this teleconference.