June 2008 Archives

In May, new car sales fell 8% in Western Europe, driven by weakness in Spain and Italy.
The most profound fall was in Spain, but weakness was also evident in Italy (-18%),

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INRETS Deputy Director Receives SAE Transport Safety Award

June 10, 2008

Dominique Cesari of INRETS, the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research is the recipient of SAE Arnold W. Siegel Transportation Safety Award

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VW CEO Winterkorn Threatens to Resign

June 10, 2008

Press reports over the weekend suggest a further hotting-up of the power struggle at Porsche and VW. In the event of an influence from Porsche into the operating business of Volkswagen,

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VISION Congress Papers Vetted, Selected

June 3, 2008

From a total of more than 70 abstracts, 33 have been selected by the Scientific Committee comprising the world’s main experts in crash research, lighting systems, and driver assistance systems.

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High-Power IR LED from Para Light

June 3, 2008

Para Light offer five models with different lens shapes and viewing angles from 10 degrees to 60 degrees, with IR LEDs that can shine up to 150 metres away.

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European Union Proposes Mandatory Safety Electronics

June 3, 2008

The European Commission has issued several proposals aimed at improving vehicle safety, and proposes that all new passenger cars be equipped with electronic stability control systems beginning in 2012.

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HBPO receives Group Award from VW

June 3, 2008

HBPO, a joint venture between Hella, Behr and Plastic Omnium which is specialized on the front-end business, started to produce and deliver just-in-time for VW in the early nineties.

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Mercedes: Substantial Enlargement of Design Studio in California

June 3, 2008

Some 60 designers work at Irvice (California), Sindelfingen (Germany) and Yokohama Japan) on concepts that will keep Mercedes-Benz at the cutting edge of automotive developments for the next 50 years or more.

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Audi R8-LED headlamp is finally available

June 3, 2008

Some of the real innovations are announced so early, that by the time you can actually buy them they seem like ‘old hat’. This is what has happened, it seems, to the full LED headlamp for the Audi R8.

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Interview : Hector Fratty head of Driving Vision News.

June 3, 2008

Hector Fratty had a long and distinguished career at Valeo Lighting Systems. He held such positions as Chief of Optics, Head of Research, and Chief of R & D until his departure from Valeo in 2006. In April 2008, Fratty created Driving Vision News, a new concept with a newsletter for information and a website…

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June 2008

May New-Car Sales Off by 8%

INRETS Deputy Director Receives SAE Transport Safety Award

VW CEO Winterkorn Threatens to Resign

VISION Congress Papers Vetted, Selected

High-Power IR LED from Para Light

European Union Proposes Mandatory Safety Electronics

HBPO receives Group Award from VW

Mercedes: Substantial Enlargement of Design Studio in California

Audi R8-LED headlamp is finally available

Interview : Hector Fratty head of Driving Vision News.

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