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Hector Fratty

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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.

Lidar is Revolutionising Autonomous Mobility: Valeo Lidar CTO

“The technology I hold in my hand is revolutionising autonomous mobility”, said Valeo’s Lidar CTO Clement Nouvel of his company’s newest Scala3 lidar. He continued: “Over the last 20 years, lidar has been associated with autonomous driving and Valeo have been enabling level-3 automation for several car manufacturers for the first time in automotive history…

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Volkswagen CEO Schaefer to Managers: ‘The Roof Is on Fire’

Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schaefer is warning of tough times, suggesting “all is at stake” in a fiery address during an internal managers’ meeting held this week.In the hour-long meeting, Schaefer laid out the breadth and severity of problems facing VW as it seeks to become a leading manufacturer of EV while continuing to serve global…

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Tesla Reportedly in India Factory Talks

Tesla is discussing an investment proposal with the Indian government to set up a factory with an annual capacity of about half a million electric vehicles, the Times of India reported, citing government sources.The company is also looking at using India as an export base to ship cars to countries in the Indo-Pacific region, the report said.India…

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Indian Motherson-Marelli JV Inaugurated

The Motherson Automotive Lighting Toolroom (MALT) has been launched and inaugurated by Maruti Suzuki’s Chair R.C. Bhargava and CEO Hisashi Takeuchi. The 8,700-m2 facility is in Noida, near Delhi, close to automakers and Motherson’s other tooling locations.By leveraging the strengths of Motherson and Marelli, the new facility aims to meet the demands of Indian automakers…

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Lidar is Crucial For Autonomous-Drive Applications

from DVN Lidar newsletterIn an exclusive interview to DVN, Bradaï, the Valeo’s autonomous-driving R&D director, and one of the greatest worldwide experts on lidar said:«Lidar is a key technology to make autonomous driving applications work. It allows an increased range with a high accuracy of detections for objects, height measurements, and 3D environment modelling capability.…

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