In depth…

DVN: Welcome to the lighting community. You’ve never been involved in lighting in your career. What was your motivation to enter the vehicle lighting industry? Raj Vazirani: That’s correct to most of the extent, however working on one of the important functions of lighting such as ADB is not completely new to me, I have…

Our 1.5-day Shanghai Workshop at the Marriott Parkview Hotel brought together around 350 participants. It was a sparkling event with an enormous amount of information, so it’s not easy to do a quick summary—we’re working on next month’s deeper report on it—but for now, here are the main takeaways: Trends Hossein Nafari, of Great Wall…

ADB: quite a vast topic for a single study! We wanted to do a complete overview of the adaptive driving beam (or glare-free high beam) function well known in Europe, but less so in China and even less in the USA on account of the regulatory situation there. But globally, there are now 13 years’…

from Dr. Wolfgang Huhn, DVN Senior Advisor Lumileds CTO Oleg Shchekin and VP of Operations Sunil Thomas, along with VP Marketing Jason Posselt and Technical Directors Brendan Moran and Lars Dabringhausen, gave DVN a presentation and window tour of their San Jose facility. The presentation showed that digital lighting is coming up everywhere. Small light…

Our visit to the KSLD headquarters in Fremont before the San Francisco DVN Workshop was perfectly organized by Josip Kovacevic. To be as efficient as possible, it was a joint meeting with the head of Bentley lighting, Ian Haughton. KSLD COO Dietmar Zapf and VP of Engineering Cole Cunnien introduced the company and the Fremont…