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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.
DVN Workshop and Anniversary Gala: A Grand Success!
The DVN Workshop was held last week, with 350 attendees in the marvellous Hyatt Regency hotel in Paris. The presentations, discussions and exhibits covered safety everywhere…regulations…software, sensor integration and fusion,…
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Emotional Award Ceremony at DVN Workshop
In a celebratory evening ceremony, DVN bestowed a brace of awards to congratulate recipients on their great job. Paul-Henri Matha: Personality of the Decade Paul-Henri Matha, shown here with Hector Fratty, received the DVN Personality of the Decade award. He was selected by the DVN board, who considered three criteria: achievements in-company; number and quality…
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Valeo CEO at DVN Workshop: New Tech Brings Great Possibilities
Valeo CEO Christophe Perillat opened the DVN workshop in Paris with a keynote overviewing today’s and tomorrow’s lighting: “In the last few years, some lighting players have changed hands. The competitive landscape has changed significantly. The ongoing industry transformation is about addressing major societal challenges as the fight against global warming (EV) and the improvement…
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Prof. Khanh: Adaptive Lights for Safety, Comfort, Sustainability
In his keynote speech, TU-Darmstadt professor Khahn explained how we can optimise safety through lighting with better visibility and less glare; comfort with better homogeneity and road brightness, and sustainability with lighting depending on traffic. Today, he said, headlights create perception conditions for the human driver as well as the ADB drive camera, with fixed…
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Bentley: Artistic Ambiance of Lighting Orchestration Via Software
At the DVN Workshop in Paris, Bentley lighting boffin Mohamed Abd El Ghani said user wellbeing is a selling feature for luxury cars. To go beyond lighting function, delivering an emotional communication is a way to achieve Bentley’s wellbeing visions for their users. The thing that inspires them on what to make, he said, is…
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SEAT: From the Line to the Surface
by Carlos Elvira, SEAT Lighting Manager
SEAT are designing headlamps and rearlamps with triangles since the Leon model of 2013. For SEAT, triangles express strength and energy, while the inverted triangle transmits a sense of tension. SEAT have used this triangle shape with some evolutions from the beginning, from the pure triangle with the Leon 2013, to more complex triangles with…
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Audi: Customer Centricity for Innovation in Software-Defined Lighting
by Andre Hainzlmaier, Audi Head of Lighting Innovation
Andre Hainzlmaier, in this presentation, wanted to emphasise that software affects not only the product, but also the experience and the configuration. In the past, lighting efficiency was the main driver of innovation, but with digital light technologies, we start a new lighting era—opening completely new opportunities for safety; design; communication; wellbeing, and entertainment, and…
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TU Darmstadt Lighting Institure Report
The Laboratory of Adaptive Lighting Systems and Visual Perception, known as the Darmstadt Lighting Institute DLI is one of the big contributors for Lighting. The research topics today cover automotive…
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Darmstadt Lighting Deep Dive in Print and Online
Parallel to the 2023 DVN Workshop in Paris, a new DVN Report will be published, the 177th monthly report in the big library we’ve been building for 15 years now.…
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