4th DVN Lidar Conference: A Great, Live Event!
Due to the high Covid counts, it was a close call if we could hold our conference as a live event or not. Fortunately, we were able to safely go…
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28 Lectures at the DVN Lidar Conference: Summaries
Session 1 • Automotive Lidar Applications Ford: Prof. Dr. Peter Zegelaar • Automated Driving Journey The challenge to go to automated driving is to manage the gradual delegation of driving…
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U.S. Congress Orders NHTSA to Allow ADB & Fix Aim—Yay?
Analysis by Daniel Stern, DVN Chief EditorThe American motoring and popular press has been abuzz for the past few days with big, breathless headlines like ADAPTIVE BEAMS FINALLY APPROVED FOR USA. Chance would be a fine thing, but that is not what has actually happened. Rather, Congress has directed NHTSA to approve ADB. A trillion-dollar…
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Launch of the International Automotive Lighting Regulatory Harmonisation Forum (IRHF)
Status Report from Geoff Draper
Following the announcement in the 19 October 2021 DVN newsletter, I have widely distributed my invitation to join the International Automotive Lighting Regulatory Harmonisation Forum (IRHF) and the responses already reveal that I will not have the support necessary to achieve the objectives. My initiative was to create an association to contribute to the development…
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Faurecia’s Hella Acquisition Motors Along
Faurecia announced last week that their public-purchase offer launched from September 27 to November 11 will allow controling 79.5 per cent of the actions of Hella. Of this total, the 60 per cent held by Hella’s family shareholders were already acquired, as agreed in the acquisition agreement announced this past summer. To buy back 100…
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LED Drivers Enable Smooth Beam Transition
Allegro MicroSystems are expanding their vehicle lighting offering with two new devices which can be used both stand-alone and in ADAS solutions. The unique selling point of the A80803 is a multi-topology converter architecture to enable smooth transitions between low and high beam with a single IC. The A80804 linear LED driver offers high performance…
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Continental Win Large Supply Bid for OLED Interior Displays
Continental have received their first major order—worth about €1bn—for OLED displays in a production vehicle. The order includes a multi-display that extends from the driver’s area to the centre console, and integrates two screens optically bonded behind a curved glass surface. Series production is scheduled to start in 2023. One of the ways OLED technology…
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Lucid, Rivian are NA Vehicle of the Year Finalists
Electric vehicle startups Lucid and Rivian are, for the first time, in the running for North American Car, Truck, and Utility of the year. The winners, based on votes by a panel of 50 journalists, will be announced in early January. After three days spent driving the 23 eligible vehicles, jurors settled on nine finalists:…
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Marelli AL at DVN Lidar Conference
Marelli, at their DVN Lidar Conference expo booth, showed off their new range of lidar modules, developed together with partner Xenomatix.Marelli’s novel sensors use VCSEL and CMOS for reliability and affordability. They come with a wide range of view fields and resolutions to best meet whatever requirements may present. Modules are available with integral proprietary…
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Valeo’s Multi-Task Fisheye AV Camera
Valeo have launched WoodScape, the first ever surround‑view fisheye camera with open-source dataset. Valeo Comfort and Driving Assistance business group president Marc Vrecko says “With WoodScape, we would like to encourage the research community to develop computer vision algorithms for fisheye cameras aimed at both low- and high-speed vehicle automation scenarios, in order to make…
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