Lidar Conference Ahead in Just Four Weeks
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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.
DVN Lidar Conference: Live and In Person in 4 Weeks!
The DVN team are excited to announce the 2021 Lidar Conference as a good old-fashioned 100 per cent live event! It will take place on 15-16 November with as few…
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Encouraging Worldwide Harmonisation of Technical Requirements
Invitation to join a new Worldwide Association
by Geoff Draper, Independent Consultant and DVN Senior Regulatory Advisor In the 25 May 2021 edition of the DVNewsletter, I explained my plan to create national and regional interest groups to contribute to develop a consensus to work on worldwide harmonised technical requirements. My vision is to develop this consensus and then approach the governmental…
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IIHS: Top-rated Headlights Linked to Lower Nighttime Crash Rates
A study by IIHS, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that headlights that score higher in a rating program are linked to lower nighttime crash rates.The study released last week found that nighttime crash rates/km are about 20% lower for vehicles with headlights that score “good” in the IIHS rating compared to those with…
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20th VDI ELIV (Electronics in Vehicles) Congress and Exhibition this Week: Lighting Involved
The 20th International congress and exhibition, held on 20-21 October, will gather decision-makers and experts in the automotive electronics and software industry.The main Topics are: Software Technologies, Automated Driving, AI -Self-Learning Vehicles, E-Mobility & E-Vehicles, and Electronics Innovation.The opening Speech will be done by Dr. Rolf Zöller, Director Smart Connected Vehicle Porsche AG, on: Automotive…
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Tesla Steps Toe In ADB Water At Last
Notoriously cocksure Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes to brag that his cars are technologically superior and years ahead of all others. As proof, he proudly tweeted last week that the Berlin-built Tesla Model Y has adaptive driving beam capability. This new feature means the Model Y joins numerous models equipped with matrix ADB headlamps by…
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KSLD to Show Fibre, Laser Lighting Tech at LightFair
Kyocera SLD Laser will showcase their high-brightness fibre lighting technology and LaserLight products— more than 10 times brighter than LEDs—at LightFair International in New York at the end of this month. The company’s LaserLight Fiber modules efficiently deliver brilliant illumination from thin, flexible fibre optics from either an end-emitting transport configuration, or a lateral-emission setup…
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SolidLight: The Highest Resolution Holographic Display
Light Field Lab last week, announced SolidLight™, which they say is the highest resolution holographic display platform ever designed. Light Field Lab’s technologies combine unprecedented size, resolution, and density to project objects that accurately move, refract, and reflect in physical space. The directly emissive modular SolidLight Surfaces form dense converging wavefronts with billions of pixels…
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Lucid Say They’ll Be First in USA With Lidar
Lucid, an EV startup based in California, say their Air BEV will be the first production car available in the states with lidar. The startup automaker will provide the system as standard equipment to enable a variety of ADAS features. Lucid’s system of cameras, radar and lidar, called DreamDrive Pro, will make the Air capable…
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To Lidar…Or Not to Lidar
Automakers have placed more emphasis on sensors and corresponding software to improve vehicle safety while increasing their bottom line with higher margin software revenues. These technologies also serve as a stepping stone to autonomous driving. But the industry is divided on the best technology to use.Tesla deleted radar from their cars in a cost-cutting move;…
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