Gee-Whiz Mark Two Vehicles Acquire Social Responsibility?

All of the relevant facts discussed above lead to many ethical issues. Ford was aware of the problem with the gas tank leaking and could have changed it before others died from their mistakes. Putting a price value on a life to beat the Japanese in the small car market is unethical. Safety should be a company’s number one priority, not beating the completion. There was a legal issue of NHTSA and Ford. Ford was aware that the fuel tanks were not working correctly but did nothing to change it because the NHTSA, at the time, had no laws against it.

The second accident at the "Timken Steel Faircrest plant" company which a is an employee fall down more than 40 feet which led to several broken bones because of just a small mistake. The problem is when he made a maintenance on a crane he wasn't ware Certified safety harness which it could safe his live from the risk. I used to do a maintenance on more than one cran and my company doesn't allow me to go without waring a Certified safety harness because they have to keep all the employees a way from all the risk and even if they didn't told me to ware it, I will not go up to the cran without it, do the fact that no one knows what will happen and even if I am good at this job, I have to work safely. I agree that this company should teach all

In this essay, I will argue that Ford Motor Company’s business behavior was unethical as demonstrated in the Ford Pinto Case. Ford did not reveal all the facts to consumers about a harmful gas tank design in the Ford Pinto. They tried to justify their decision to sell an unsafe car by using a Cost-Benefit Analysis which determined it was cheaper to sell the cars without changing to a safer gas tank. The price of not fixing the gas tanks is human injuries and fatalities. By choosing not to make the Pinto a safer vehicle Ford placed a price on the head of every consumer. Ford’s primary concern was to maximize profits. Ford had a duty and ethical responsibility to customers to

Actions are ethical - Government sets regulations to ensure that safety standards are being met and as long as the manufacturer is meeting those requirements, it must be safe and they must be acting ethically.

Volkswagen is under investigation following reports from the EPA that they had installed software into their engines that deceived emissions testers. Furthermore, engineers updated this software in 2014, claiming that they were improving the vehicles. James Liang, a senior engineer who had worked for Volkswagen for 30 years, admitted to investigators in September of 2016 that he had designed the software in question. Further investigation has revealed that this conspiracy may have involved executives of the company. It is unknown to the public whether Liang was acting under orders when he designed the software or he decided to create it on his own to meet requirements his superiors gave him. Both rule utilitarianism and Kantian duty ethics

The Vehicle Safety Compliance Act of 1988, a law that prohibits the import of a daily driver vehicle that is less than 25 years old. Has become an ongoing issue in today’s driving society. Specifically, the law states an imported car less than the manufacturing date of 25 years need to pass certain safety emissions and tests to be brought to U.S.A. “The vehicle must be capable of being brought into compliance with all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards.” (102 STAT. 2819). From 1988 to, the present consumers are arguing that this pointless law is taking away their freedom to buy and import vehicles at their own discretion. This could lead the consumers into black market schemes making it a very risky approach towards imported vehicles sales and would hurt the economy in the same process. The Vehicle Safety Compliance Act of 1988 should be removed because of the freedom it strips away from the automotive consumer.

General motors is a relevant social group because they are the ones who manufactured and sold the EV1. They originally decided to abide by the

In terms of the professional codes, the National Society of Professional Engineers, Brad would demonstrate the codes “Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public” and “perform services only in areas of their competence” if he performs the changes (“Code of Ethics”). For the code, “Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public,” Brad will have done what he had to do to protect the customer’s safety even if it meant going against the customer’s request and his manager (“Code of Ethics”). For the code, “Perform services only in areas of their competence,” Brad is sure that the broken brake cable is not the proper material and needs to substitute for a proper or better material (“Code of Ethics”).

Many people today do not realise how driving a vehicle can affect people’s daily living. Currently in China, people are fighting for their lives because of the amount of emission that vehicles put out into the atmosphere. Whether individuals have efficient vehicles that do not harm or pollute the atmosphere or lack efficient vehicles, the quality of air is an issue that affects, not just China, but the entire world. The following articles will discuss what is better for China’s environment through different areas such as ethos, logos, and pathos. In the article “The Health Effects of Beijing’s Smog,” by Devon Haynie will discuss ways to help China through logos and pathos, but lacks ethos. While Jennifer Duggan, (2014), in the article “China to Scrap Millions of Cars to Ease Pollution,” will discuss different ways to prevent vehicle pollution using ethos, logos, and pathos.

When engineers design a product many things go in to the decision making process when it comes to selecting materials, design, and the manufacturing processes. One concern that has always been in the decision making process is trying to make sure the outcome will always be ethically good, although this isn’t always the case. Try as they might, no person is perfect, and accidents do happen. When engineering disasters happen there are many factors that may be involved, such as human factors, design flaws, extreme conditions, and materials failures. When these things do happen it is important to look at the ethical aspect of each part of the failure and

Industrial Engineers often face the ethical dilemma of attempting to balance costs with quality and safety. Company management pressures Industrial systems engineers to design processes that are cost efficient, time constrained, and produce a high quality output. This puts the engineer in a tricky balancing act in which they are trying to make every stakeholder happy. Taking risks in order to create cost efficient solutions is not specific to only industrial engineers but applies to all disciplines of engineering, making this topic a relevant discussion. However, this conflict is especially true in a manufacturing setting where industrial engineers thrive, machine operators are often overworked, companies make products in high stakes, large batches, and the range of quality acceptance is growing ever smaller. A relevant example is the engineer who was designing a chemical plant in Mexico. In order to achieve the correct viscosity of the paint stripper, the engineer asked the plant operator to babysit the chemical mixture and manually release the valve when necessary. Engineering management’s decision puts the plant worker at a safety risk in order to achieve a tighter quality and standardization of the chemical stripper production process. Ultimately, this resulted in the catastrophic death of the plant worker and the destruction of the plant.

Engineers are trusted individuals which the public has set high standards for. The public relies on engineers to efficiently, and accurately determine the safety of all products they create. Engineers are required to follow safety procedures in order to ensure the quality of the products they create. However, are these procedures enough to ensure the safety of the public? Or can additional actions be taken in order to improve the safety of a product? If so, to what extent should engineers be required to take matters into their own hands and ensure the safety of products, in return reducing the number of injuries and fatal accidents?

This incident would serve as the initial event that jumpstarted the public’s concern for exactly what was going on with many Toyota models. In this paper, we will explore the ethical issue that was present in this case, whether or not Toyota acted ethically in its handling of the unintended acceleration of its vehicles. In order to do this, we will examine the situation in the light of the six-step Hosmer’s moral reasoning process. This will include, among other aspects, an examination of the event in consideration of shareholder, stakeholder, and virtue theory. In addition to that, the authors will apply the Total Integrity Management model to Toyota’s actions in order to examine the moral integrity of the company as it pertains to trust. To conclude the paper, the authors will provide a normative statement regarding the actions of Toyota. To

Everyone except Ford’s top executives, who in an internal document cited the potential danger. So not only did they know about it, but they calculated that it would be cheaper to pay out possible injury claims then it would be to recall all the vehicles. This ethical dilemma came to a head when three teenage girls were killed in Indiana while in a Ford Pinto. With the bad press and with company officials being indicted with negligence and homicide, Ford was forced to recall all their Pinto vehicles. Ethical issues in the auto industry regarding product safety are dangerous and are linked to human lives. The decisions that Ford executives made had a direct impact on those three teenage girls and the blood was left in their hands. This is just one of many faulty decisions made in automakers history that helped mold the unethical decisions made by Volkswagen in the most recent ethical issue facing the auto industry.

The ecological environment necessitates clean, renewable energy sources, which requires automakers to design motors with these new fuel sources in mind. The legal environment imposes stricter regulations on vehicle