Editorial

One of the puzzles in vehicle lighting that is not really visible on prime stage, by marketing actions or by innovation award ceremonies, is the job of photometry and testing.…

DVN’s Sensing & Function business unit held an event last week focusing on US-spec AEB (automatic emergency braking) to comply with the tough, disputed new FMVSS 127. As we described…

During the DVN event at Shanghai last year, I had the chance to have a long discussion with the BYD team about vehicle lighting technology and challenges, and they proposed…

Some weeks ago, The SRA (Sécurité et Réparation Automobiles, a French association of car insurance companies) published a report about the huge, 70 per cent upward price evolution of replacement car lamps over the last…

I was invited by Uwe Konstanzer’s successor, Stefan Toepfer, to visit with the Mercedes-Benz lighting team and discuss lighting technology. I was curious as to the latest status of their…

DVN is back in Tokyo this 11-12 June for our lighting workshop. The first Toyko workshop was 13 years ago in 2012; this will be the fifth. I was travelling…

I was last week in Shenzhen, Anne Hometown (Anne is our DVN representative in China. To visit some DVN members (and possible members) to exchange about lighting, automotive market and…

Just 10 days on from the DVN Munich event, we are pleased to publish our detailed report; download it here. In it, we bring you the challenges faced by the…

DVN @ Munich 2025 brought more than 500 people—another new record—together to tell, show, listen, and learn about the latest vehicle lighting challenges. More competition, barriers formed by geopolitical turbulence,…