Headlamps Get More Powerful & Functional, Less Visible
When I wrote a report on DRL more than 10 years ago, I explained how “Audi have been quick to understand and employ the DRL safety lever with brand-wide DRL…
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ESS H.E.L.P. For Better, Smarter Hazard Lights
An American startup—a new DVN member company called Emergency Safety Solutions have come gunning for what is surely the most neglected vehicle light signal, with a promising new idea to make hazard flashers visually distinct from turn signals and more effective at conveying the right message.ESS’ technology is called H.E.L.P, for Hazard Enhanced Lighting Package,…
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VW May Offer Pay-Per-Use Autonomous Driving
Klaus Zellmer is in charge of sales, marketing, and after-sales for the Volkswagen brand. He says VW are thinking about offering autonomous driving on a pay-per-use basis: “Regarding autonomous driving we can imagine offering it on an hourly basis. We assume a price of around €7 per hour. So if you do not want to…
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US Makers Speed Up New-Model Launches
The range of quickly competitors are introducing new vehicles is reaching its widest point in recent auto industry history. Honda and Toyota lead in model replacement rates while Stellantis and General Motors trail the pack, according to a study of the U.S. product pipeline contained in the newly released annual study “Car Wars.” At the…
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HUDs are Central in Tomorrow’s Cockpit
HUDs (head-up displays) are now playing a crucial role in automotive HMI (human-machine interfaces). A HUD relieves the driver of the need to take eyes off the road and refocus…
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Asahi Kasei Europe’s Work on Auto Interior Hygiene
Covid-19 is changing our understanding of cleanliness and safety in vehicle interiors. A recent study shows vehicle users worldwide are willing to pay a premium for cars that actively zap pathogens on surfaces and in the air. The Covid 19 pandemic has had a strong impact on our mobility behavior. Surveys show that the use…
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BMW’s Newest BEVs: iX and i4
BMW has just introduced their latest battery electric vehicles based on the CLAR platform (covering the D, E, F -segment ICE cars, sports cars and SUVs). The i4 sedan, and iX SUV are entirely new, completely removed (although utilizing some advanced aluminum and carbon composite construction) from the previous i3 and now discontinued i8 vehicles.…
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_Car interiors Unplugged
22. UX, a Universal eXperience _ (This story is part of an ongoing series introducing automotive interiors as an evolution of our habitat) “A person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service” is the ISO definition of human-system interaction (ISO 9241-210) Speed, is the factor…
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ALE Followed on Heels of Shanghai DVN Workshop
A few weeks after the DVN Workshop at Shanghai, China’s biggest and most important lighting event took place there: ALE, the Automotive Lighting Exhibition and Congress. DVN were actively present…
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ISAL Postponed to April 4th to 6th 2022
Because of the actual Covid situation the Administration of the Technical University Darmstadt has decided to have no events with physical attendance before October 31st 2021.ISAL was unfortunately inside this time frame with a planned event date on September 13th to 15th.It is now a huge task for Timo Singer’s ISAL organizing team to change…
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