Question

CASE - I

Ford Pinto : In the class, we learned the reasons behind disastrous engineering failures, Ford Pinto case is one of the disastrous in the list.

Analyze the ford pinto case, search the case on the websites and answer the following.

Answer the following questions in detail.

Questions:
1. a) List down engineering failure and causes?
    b) List down ethical issues?

2. What are the precaution has been taken place after the incidents?

CASE-II

Lucy is a young teacher at a popular school with an incredibly busy and stressful schedule, who needs to organize what little free time she has more efficiently. Because of the hectic schedule she has downloaded a new Mobile app called 'daily-scheduler' onto her iPhone; this mobile app merges information from Lucy’s to-do-list, information on her purchasing habits from retail stores she shops at, and GPS software to produce the most efficient map and directions for running ‘daily-scheduler’ on her days off. Based on what it knows about what she needs to purchase and her general shopping habits, it tells Lucy what locations of her favorite stores to visit on a given day, in what order and by what routes – this way she can get her ‘daily-scheduler’ done in the least amount of time, traveling the least number of miles. To accomplish this, the mobile app aggregates information not only about where she lives and shops, but also tracks what she typically buys in each store, how much she buys, what she typically pays for each item. This collected data is not stored on Lucy’s phone, but on a separate server that the app links to when it needs to create a shopping map. The mobile app encourages users to log in social media channel via Facebook, as the developers have made a deal with Facebook to sell this data to third-party advertisers, for the purpose of targeting Facebook ads to Lucy and her friends.

Answer the following questions in detail.

Questions:
1. In what ways could Lucy potentially be harmed by this mobile app, depending on how it is designed and how her shopping data is handled and used? Identify a few harmful scenarios you can think of, and the types of harm she could suffer in each.

2. Which if any of these harms could result from ethical failings on the part of the people who developed 'daily-scheduler'? How, specifically?

3. What actions could the people behind 'daily-scheduler' take to prevent these harms ? Are they ethically obligated to prevent them? Why or why not? Explain your answer.

PLEASE NOTE:

* All the students MUST write the answers with their own. Do not copy
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Answer 1

CASE - I

Ford Pinto case study:

1.a) List of engineering failure and causes:

1.Ford was fully aware of the faulty fuel tank that often ruptured during rear-end impact.

2.but Iacocca decided it was too late to redesign and go by the faulty gas tank design.

3.This measure was taken by the management for 2 reasons.those are cost conscious buyers.and cost on safty reflects the buying behaviour.

4.colleagues and other ford engineers agreed with Iacocca about the faulty gas tank and launched PINTO into the market.

5.Design defect of the Ford pinto is fuel tank system.

6.Ford has 40 court cases and hundreds of million paid as fine.

b). List of Ethical issues:

1.A mistake is justified using the utilitarianism.

2. Calculatin the value of human life is wrong in this concept.

3. Projecting the companies loss as the cost for the society is wrong.

4. Ignoring the field reports.

5. Neglecting safety issue.

6. Obligation to protect the ford employees or the customers.

CASE II:

1) Her personal information like bank account passwords, assets,and her friends details etc may disclosed to the third party.

2). If she share any private vedios to her friend then the third party can blackmail her.it leads to ethical issue.

3). The minimum use of internet in the physical source example mobile phones and computer, then the less protected you become.