It has been a great pleasure for me to write your DVNewsletter every week this year, and I hope you’ve enjoyed it. I try my best to cover the full scope of what is happening in the vehicle lighting world and its tangents.
I want to thank all of you reading this, for your ongoing faith in DVN. We gained more and more readers this year, and strong interest from growing markets like India and China.
Established markets in Europe, North America, and Japan are on the increase, too, with newcomers from sectors including display, semiconductors, software, and ‘AI’. Lighting’s constellation is actively growing larger and more diverse, to comprise the likes of chemicals and materials, and photonics. This is really complex technology, and the interconnection with such a vibrant array of fields is making lighting more interesting and fascinating.
I close the year with this greeting card, which include snowflakes and other road marking symbols from UN R48 annex 16. As 2024 draws to a close, I am focussed on what I consider one of the lighting world’s prime opportunities: the possibility to have driver assistance and signalling projections on the road. 2024 was the year of driver assistance projection, regulatorily as part of ADB, and practically possible with DLP and microLED technology. Watch for an overview of the current state of that art in the next DVNewsletter; I’m working on it now.
I foresee 2025 as the year of signalling road projections: turn indicators, reversing lamps, and welcome sequences. Count on DVN to provide all the details as this technology and its apposite regulations evolve around the world. So to get a running start on that, today I am glad to publish my interview with Polestar’s lighting design team. 24th December is the Northern Hemisphere’s longest night of the year; and during this long night, the pole star where the car company got their name is shining to bring light into everyone’s house and home. How fitting!
All of us at the DVN team wish you great happiness as you celebrate your holidays. See you in 2025 !
