Accidental hero: Renault's director of road safety policy, Jean-Yves Le Coz, is bringing his medical knowledge to bear on the crash safety of his company's vehicles

摘要

There are plenty of PhDs in automotive engineering departments, but not many of those were awarded in medicine. Renault Group's director of road safety policy, Jean-Yves Le Coz, started out as a hospital physician with a specialism in functional rehabilitation, but his career path took an unexpected turn when in 1986 he met fellow doctor, Claude Tarriere. At that time, Tarriere was director of the Renault/PSA co-owned Accidentology, Biomechanics, and Human Behavior Studies Laboratory (LAB). "After 10 years in hospitals, I'd begun to think about road safely because my patients included a lot of people.