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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: Around the World, Around the Clock!
We bring you a great deal of information this week from three continents—this is a central force and feature of DVN: we are everywhere vehicle lighting and driver vision news…
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Interview: GRE Chair Timo Kärkkäinen on R48 Amendments
Last week, we brought you GTB President Valter Genone’s description of the new 09 series of amendments to UN Regulation 48, decided at the GRE 89th session in Geneva 2 weeks ago. To understand more about the significance of these amendments, we talked with Timo Kärkkäinen, who chairs the GRE (Working Party on Lighting and Light-Signalling).
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Hella FlatLight, Forvia Tech Win CES 2024 Awards
Hella’s FlatLight µMX technology is based on an innovative LED light guide concept with microöptics smaller than a grain of salt. The FlatLight µMX is notably thin, efficient, and scalable; the required installation space is reduced by up to 90 per cent, to just 5 mm.Multicolour combinations of turn, stop, and tail light functions can…
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ZKW, ÖAMTC Present Future Lighting Tech
ZKW and ÖAMTC Fahrtechnik presented their concepts for vehicle lighting of the future at an event centred round Driving Safety & Light last week at the Melk/Wachauring Driving Technology Centre. Both companies demonstrated the latest technologies: high-resolution ADB and light projections, as well as person-vehicle-obstacle detection using modern sensor technology and AI. ZKW CEO Wilhelm…
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Interview: Zeekr Design Boss Jon Rådbrink
In parallel with the Guangzhou Auto Show reveal of the new Zeekr 007, the DVN team took time to talk with Zeekr exterior design chief Jon Rådbrink about his work and the new car. DVN: Hello Jon! Will you introduce yourself? Jon Rådbrink: I am a 41-year-old Swedish designer, who worked previously for Lynk &…
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12 new reveils at Guangzhou Auto Show
MG Cyberster The MG Cyberster respects the design of its foregoing concept car, particularly around the headlamps and bifurcated-grille design, while the taillamps have a trendy full-width light band. The price is C¥319,800 to 359,800. Electric hybrid MPV-JAC Ruifeng RF8 It’s got ‘Tiger Roar’ headlights and full-width daytime running lights up front, and the ‘phoenix…
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Bright Lights, Big City: Los Angeles Auto Show Part I
As this issue of your DVNewsletter goes live, we’re just back from the Automobility LA, the Los Angeles auto show. It was a smaller show this year in terms of the raw number of vehicle models shown, but it was a notably focused show, with emphasis on new debuts and revised models; markedly less space-filling…
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AEye Lidar Maximizes Performance, Design
AEye have announced their ultra-compact, high-performance reference design for automotive lidar, the 4Sight Flex. It delivers unparalleled performance; it is highly compact and energy-efficient, and it breaks new low-cost barriers. CEO Matt Fisch says, “We believe that performance and design both matter and that both are important to driving lidar adoption with OEMs. Our customers…
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Hesai Lidar Will Equip Great Wall Vehicles
Hesai have announced an automotive lidar design win with Great Wall Motors; multiple GWM passenger vehicle models will be equipped with Hesai’s ultrahigh-resolution AT128 long-range lidar, with plans for mass production and delivery starting in 2024. In the future, the Hesai AT128 will serve as a key sensor for GWM’s series-production vehicles, combined with GWM’s…
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