THE FORD PINTO CASE: THE VALUATION OF LIFE AS IT APPLIES TO THE NEGLIGENCE-EFFICIENCY ARGUMENT Christopher Leggett Law & Valuation Professor Palmiter Spring‚ 1999 Abstract Text of Paper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract The cases involving the explosion of Ford Pinto’s due to a defective fuel system design led to the debate of many issues‚ most centering around the use by Ford of a cost-benefit analysis and the
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Chapter 1 kin 4315 1.The dynamic systems theory of motor control is able to account for the four characteristics of human movement through the process of: none of the above 2. The reflex theory of motor control cannot account for which characteristic of human movement uniqueness 3. Open-loop motor control relies on sensory feedback to guide the completion of the movement. False 4. One weakness of the reflex theory of motor control is that: it cannot explain how humans can perform unique
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AUDIT MEMORANDUM To: First Motors Corporation From: Nam Do CC: Dr. Jeff Archambault Date: 11/10/2011 Re: The Accounting Policies and Procedures Purpose: The purpose of the audit memo is to clarify the accounting policies and procedures used by clients and the accounting policies and procedures that should be followed. The audit memorandum also provides a clear explanation of a difference between the risk premium in discounting the free cash flow from Plant 3 and the risk premium in discounting
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Ford in the 1980s‚ has been introducing revolutionary products‚ using the the total quality management to drive down cost‚ and gain market share‚ with a household slogan”quality is job1”‚ but lately the no.2 automaker had gaffes‚ that have cost it customer satisfaction‚ market share‚ and making it ranks last among the big-seven automakers. To counter these quality gaffes‚ like the explorer tire debucle‚ ford began overhauling its quality process‚ and redefined the way they approached business‚ as
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Ford & General Motors in Russia In July 2002‚ Ford Motor Company officially opened its first Russian car factory near St. Petersburg. The factory‚ which cost some S150 million to build‚ is 100% owned by Ford and represents the first wholly owned investment by a foreign carmaker in Russia. The factory is tiny by international standards; it will employ 800 people and initially will produce 10‚000 Ford Focus cars a year. By comparison‚ a typical auto plant in the developed world produces 200‚000
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Henry Ford Henry Ford was one of America’s greatest businesspersons‚ the founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for mass production in the American economy. This achievement led Ford to becoming a rich and famous man. Ever since Ford was a child‚ he had a dream to become an engineer and to manufacture cars. He began to pursue his dream when he introduced the Assembly line‚ by breaking down production into simple tasks. He lowered the skill level needed to work in a factory
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Toyota Motor Corporation Marina Curmei MGT 521 - Management December 12‚ 2012 Professor Louis Aliberti‚ Esq.‚ J.D.‚ M.B.A. Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor is one of the most competitive companies. Toyota was created in 1937 and since then it operates on the international level. Its products are valuable in Japan‚ North America‚ Europe‚ Asia‚ and many more countries. Toyota Motor is known by producing automobiles. The automobile
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UC3638 Advanced PWM Motor Controller FEATURES • • • • • • • • Single or Dual Supply Operation Accurate High Speed Oscillator Differential X5 Current Sense Amplifier Bidirectional Pulse-by-Pulse Current Limiting Programmable Oscillator Amplitude and PWM Deadband Dual 500mA Totem Pole Output Drivers Dual 60V‚ 50mA Open Collector Drivers Undervoltage Lockout DESCRIPTION The UC1638 family of integrated circuits are advanced pulse width modulators intended for a variety of PWM motor drive and amplifier
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The speed of an asynchronous motor rotating field and thus its rotor speed depends on the number of pairs of poles in the stator field .the rotor speeds n are lower than the table values by the amount of the relevant slip speed ns. Motors are designed with up to three stators windings‚ which have different number of pairs of poles. They can therefore run at up to pairs of poles. They can be in any desired ratio to one another. A pole-changing switch is used to changing poles for the desires speed
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Andrew Martin COMM 336 Informative Paper 4/4/2013 Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is a car company that designs‚ manufactures and sells electric vehicles. This public company was founded in 2003 by Ian Wright‚ JB Straubel‚ Marc Tarpenning‚ Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto‚ California‚ with its main production plant in Fremont‚ California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla‚ a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to
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