CASE - I
Ford Pinto : In the class, we learned thereasons behind disastrous engineering failures, Ford Pinto case isone of the disastrous in the list.
Analyze the ford pinto case, search the case on the websites andanswer the following.
Answer the following questions in detail.
Questions:
1. a) List down engineering failure andcauses?
   b) List down ethical issues?
2. What are the precaution has been taken placeafter the incidents?
CASE-II
Lucy is a young teacher at a popular school with an incredibly busyand stressful schedule, who needs to organize what little free timeshe has more efficiently. Because of the hectic schedule she hasdownloaded a new Mobile app called 'daily-scheduler' onto heriPhone; this mobile app merges information from Lucy’s to-do-list,information on her purchasing habits from retail stores she shopsat, and GPS software to produce the most efficient map anddirections for running ‘daily-scheduler’ on her days off. Based onwhat it knows about what she needs to purchase and her generalshopping habits, it tells Lucy what locations of her favoritestores 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 amountof time, traveling the least number of miles. To accomplish this,the mobile app aggregates information not only about where shelives and shops, but also tracks what she typically buys in eachstore, how much she buys, what she typically pays for each item.This collected data is not stored on Lucy’s phone, but on aseparate server that the app links to when it needs to create ashopping map. The mobile app encourages users to log in socialmedia channel via Facebook, as the developers have made a deal withFacebook to sell this data to third-party advertisers, for thepurpose 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 mobileapp, depending on how it is designed and how her shopping data ishandled and used? Identify a few harmful scenarios you can thinkof, and the types of harm she could suffer in each.
2. Which if any of these harms could resultfrom 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 ethicallyobligated to prevent them? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
PLEASE NOTE:
* All the students MUST write the answers with their own. Do notcopy
websites.
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