Conclusion V. Sources INTRODUCTION “For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.” Mark Dowie‚ Author of Pinto Madness (8) One of the biggest automotive news stories in the latter part of the 1970’s dealt with tales of exploding Ford Pintos and the considerable awards civil court juries were presenting to victims of accidents involving the cars. Ford produced the Pinto automobile from 1971 to 1980. Initially the
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Utilitarianism and the Ford Pinto Case The Ford Motor Company manufactured a subcompact vehicle called the Ford Pinto during the years from 1970 to 1980. The Ford Pinto was advertised successfully to consumers and The Ford Motor Company was rewarded with sales for the Ford Pinto in the hundreds of thousands. Was the reward worth the cost? The Ford Motor Company knowingly engineered the Ford Pinto with a design flaw in the placement of the gas tank and a design flaw in the connection of the fuel
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Case Study: Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard Karen Ramsey Instructor: LaVonne Baker Lee November 19‚ 2012 Case Study: Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard A fight was fought between SunCal and the city council of Anaheim‚ California for the right to build affordable housing in “Mickey’s backyard”. “In the early 1990s‚ the city had designated two square miles adjacent to Disneyland as a special resort district‚” (Lawrence‚ A. 2010). SunCal bought 26 acres in the two mile radius set aside for resort and
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Ford Pinto Case Ford Pinto Case If we were involved in the Ford Pinto dilemma we would have used Deontological Ethical reasoning to decide whether or not to disclose the danger that the Pinto posed and/or use that reasoning to determine whether or not to install the part(s) that would make the Ford Pinto safer. Our decision would be to do what is morally right and avoid doing what is morally wrong‚ regardless of the consequences. True enough Ford was not obligated by government regulation or
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A Timeline of Ford Motor Company In August 1946‚ Henry Ford Sr. (1863-1947) and his wife‚ Clara‚ sit in the First Ford Car‚ build in 1896. Model Ts stand ready for Delivery in 1925. The Ford Explorer SUV is waning in popularity. Ford has been synonymous with the automotive industry‚ Since the company’s founding in 1903. Mr. Henry Ford‚ the founder of the company became best known for innovation‚ transforming cars into commodities for the masses and his company into an American icon. Here
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COLOURFUL CORPORATION Can there be prosperity without growth? PRIYANKA MAHAJAN STUDENT NO. 3423936 WORD COUNT: 3696 Table of Contents COLOURFUL CORPORATION ................................................................................................... 1 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 1 2. AIM .......................................................................
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The Ford Pinto Question 1 What moral issues does the Pinto case raise? ANS: The Pinto case raise the moral issues of what is the dollar value of the human life. That the businesses should not be putting a value on human life and disregard a known deadly danger. In order to perform a risk/benefit analysis‚ all costs and benefits must be expressed in some common measure. This measure is typically in dollars‚ as the Ford Motor Company used in its analysis. This can prove difficult for things that
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Moral Intensity of Ford Pinto Case Magnitude of the Consequences From the perspective of senior managers who made the decision‚ the magnitude of consequences introducing the Ford Pinto to the market is small. To support this point of view‚ Ford vice President firstly cited several statistical evidences. In 1975‚ only 12 of 848 deaths‚ which associated with passenger-car accidents in which fires also occurred‚ involved occupants of Pintos. And in 1976‚ the number of occupant fatalities in fire-associated
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Firestone Case Danger on the Highway: Bridgestone/Firestone¡¦s Tire Recall Bridgestone/Firestone‚ Inc.‚ based in Nashville‚ Tennessee‚ has been in the business of making tires since 1900‚ when Harvey Firestone founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron‚ Ohio. Firestone was acquired by Bridgestone USA‚ Inc.‚ a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation‚ in 1990 for $2.6 billion. Today‚ the company markets 8‚000 different types and sizes of tires‚ and a host of other products. The
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the Firestone and Ford Tire controversy. They were both beneficial companies in this society. Henry Ford was the person who founded the company Ford Motor Company. It was largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production in the American economy. Ford’s business provided people‚ standardization‚ the assembly line‚ and high wages for workers. The Firestone Tire Company was founded on a determination to offer the quality and services offered. If Firestone and Ford Tire
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