National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The cases involving the explosion of Ford Pinto's due to a defective fuel system design led to the debate of Ford’s use of their a cost-benefit analysis and its decision not to upgrade the fuel system based on this analysis. Ford failed its consumers by not applying risk management during the initial design of the Ford Pinto. Instead it calculated risk based on a strictly functional view which would result in Ford defending their decision based on their cost-benefit analysis. In comparison…

According to the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, 7.5 million, child live in a single or two parent household who has a problem with alcohol. Of that 7.5 million about 1.6 million lived with a single parent who has an alcohol abuse problem (Center for Behavioral Health…

The legal definition of the term criminal negligence is “the failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner” (Legal Dictionary) and in at least the Ford case, the company was aware of the dangers surrounding their product and of the potential risk for loss of life of Pinto…

A Philosophical Approach In the 1978, three teenagers died after the Ford Pinto they were in was involved in a low spread rear-ended collision. This was not the first time that a death was the outcome of Ford Pinto being involved in a low speed rear end collision. The Ford Pinto was designed and released in a quick time period in 1971 (Trevino & Nelson, 2014, p. 64). Although it was discovered during the testing of the Pinto that the gas tank had a flaw, Ford decided to move forward with the…

takes your attention away from the task of safe driving is a distraction. Although teenagers today are aware of the dangers of using their cell phones while driving, they continue to engage in these behaviors. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are approximately 660,000 drivers who use electronic devices while driving during the day. This is very dangerous because their full attention is not on the road, but instead on their device. Texting takes the driver’s…

2012, Tesla added the Model X, a sports utility vehicle to its product line, which rolled out of production in 2015. The Model X would become the first SUV to be rated a perfect 5 in all categories, including rollover risk, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Isidore). Although proven successful, Tesla still had one major obstacle: price and distribution. Electric vehicle technology was and remains a newer exploration for the automotive market. Therefore, the cost of Telsa’s…

#1 Sleep disorders overview Sleep is the body’s state of change which involves brain wave activity, heart rate, breathing, body temperature, and other biologic changes. It is a period of time that is restful because of reduced activity and reduced external factors. It is easy to reverse, but associated with a specific posture, lying down with eyes closed. Two specific sleepy times during the day for most individuals who have regular sleep. Between the late night hours of midnight and 7am and…

Conger Wraase Professor Diehl ENGR 107-003 8 December 2016 The automobile industry is one of the fields that humans relies on the most. Cars get people to and from their jobs, family events, vacations, entertainment, and more; without them the world would not be able to run as smoothly as it currently does. There is a bad side to automobiles though, per the Association for Safe International Road Travel “nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day.” To…

of cars and soon after rising to power in 1934 and during the International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition in Berlin Hitler announce his interest on getting involve on the automobile industry. For Hitler automobiles represented “a symbol of national pride and technological prowess” (Kiley, 2002). In contrast, of been only a privilege for wealthy men he believed in the importance of creating a cheap, small car that could be considered “the people’s car” as a way to also give the opportunity…

technology are alarming. The negative impacts of overuse and dependency affect many areas of life, such as driving safety, psychological health, educational interference, medical training, children, and family life. The world has become overly dependent technology. It is true that technology…