Here comes STMicroelectronics with their ALED1262ZT 12-channel LED driver, which supports complex and innovative visual effects for advanced automotive rear combination lamps and interior lighting.

The chip features independent 7-bit PWM dimming

Japanese and European regulations permit CMS (camera monitoring systems) rather than traditional side- and rearview mirrors. US regulations don't, but perhaps that will eventually change: Tesla and the Alliance of Automobile

Apple—yes, the iPhone company—are now selling a bicycle helmet. It's called the Lumos Matrix Urban smart bike helmet, and its prominent feature is a matrix of 77 RGB LEDs on a panel facing rearward. Lumos say the fully addressable 7 × 11 dot-matrix

VW's new Arteon got almost top "Good" marks in almost every crashworthiness test the US IIHS put it through, and next-best "Acceptable" grades in the rest. Its active front-crash prevention system got the best mark, too; "Superior".

But all three available

A company called Creative Repair Solutions are offering 3D-printed repair kits for headlamps with cracked or broken mount tabs. The makers say headlamps might be just fine after a minor collision, except for mount tab damage, so the repair kits allow expensive

UMTRI, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, has published a rigourous study of lighting and driver-assist technology. GM gave UMTRI information about the safety system content of over 3.7 million vehicles—20 different

Myotek are a US-based supplier of innovative LED vehicle lighting, including cleverly-designed DRLs, high-power spot lights, and multifunction fog lamps giving unusually high performance, for the world's automakers. Now they're expanding their U.S.

Market intelligence provider TrendForce have ranked the world's LED package suppliers.
Here's how they stacked up in 2018:
1: Osram
2: Nichia
3: Lumileds
4: Stanley
5: Seoul Semiconductor
6: Dominant
7: Samsung
8: Everlight
9: Cree
10: Citizen

Taiwan-based LED supplier Everlight and German automotive component supplier Dräxlmaier have joined the ISELED Alliance, an ecosystem for innovative in-vehicle digital LED lighting, with partners working together to create a complete solution

German sensor developer Blickfeld have launched a new a MEMS-based solid-state lidar for the detection of objects up to 250 metres away.
Blickfield say their Cube Range sensor is a robust, powerful 3D solid-state lidar for the mass market, with tight resolution of