Ethical Analysis of General Motors Ignition Switch Scandal

Review of Organization General Motors was founded by William Durant on September 16, 1908. When General Motors was founded, General Motors owned Buick Motors only, but acquired Ozmorber, Cadillac and Pontiac within 10 years of establishment. Between 1910 and 1929, the demand for automobiles grew, and GM was able to set standards for innovation in production, design and marketing. GM diversified their choices and opened more than a dozen new factories outside the United States. In 1927 Harley Earl, director of GM design studio, designed LaSalle. This is far less than the Ford model, so it shows the beginning of real car design.

Since 2001, General Motors sells Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions, some of which sometimes stop cars with broken ignition switches. The air bag is being deployed while being driven or colliding. However, what really raided the senator's moral resentment is that "General Motors engineers found a way to stop the shutdown of the ignition switch nine years ago, but instead of seeking a partial solution" a commercial decision "Did. It is now related to the deaths of more than a dozen people. "

Meanwhile, General Motors, which has abundant resources and personnel, remembered more than 800,000 vehicles in 2014 due to the breakdown of the ignition switch, and as keys collided or pulled, the engine It may stop. Airbag is invalid with the same switch, 13 people die within 10 years

This is another frustrating analysis of the agency's last OIG report announced in June 2015, following the death of GM's ignition switch, 124 people died and 274 people were injured. is. Although not too harsh, the latest report describes a whimsical NHTSA employee who can solve the fatal Takaka airbag - inflator crash - the greatest safety recall ever and - often can not record or explain them Decision and data collection process was impossible. In the period from 2012 to 2016 (issued in 1384), random sample of 94 recalls by light passenger car said "National Highway Road Traffic Safety Authority has no internal responsibility and is risk-based" There was sufficient evidence. If there is an oversight, the ability of the agency to carry out the safety mission of the institution will be hindered. "