The Safety Regulations Of The Automobile Industry

Now days the automobile industry has to bind to a large list of government regulations. While some may just be focusing on the driver comfort and avoiding unnecessary distraction, the government has safety regulations which have to be strictly imposed on every vehicle. Within these safety regulations, there is The Clean Air Act; an act to improve, strengthens, and accelerates programs for the prevention and abatement of air pollution. But we always had criminals breaking the rules of society. VW (Volkswagen) committed fraud by having their software engineers programing the on-board engine management module (ECM) in order to obtain higher profits. Of course they did not care about the consequences neither the harm they will be doing to†¦show more content†¦It is just not in the best interest of any professional/engineer, nobody want to go to jail. It is clear that there was some sort of pressure imposed by top executive of this company on these workers. The company saw an opportunity since there is only a few diesel cars on the road. By introducing diesel powered cars that offer better mpg than gasoline powered vehicles, they knew, they were going to dominate the diesel market. It was irresponsible to use the ECM, which was designed in part to monitor the emissions system efficiency, to overlook this intended fault and provide an abstract feedback at the smog testing facilities. Aristotle made clear that all humans seek to flourish. Well, Volkswagen, as a corporation, was trying to flourish once more but not by good means. Also Aristotle pronounced that â€Å"man is a rational creature who lives in poleis† and what make society are rules, rational rules. Is these are violated, there is going to be a possibility of encountering a highly corrupted society. Aristotle thinks we should be upset if people do well undeservedly. This engineers fooled government authorities and the public for more than five years. And this case is an indignant outcome of how low big corporation can behave. The Aristotelian ethics seeks Eudaimonia or what is call happiness. This is the goal of every human