Chevy Corvair Case Summary

Now, let’s consider about short-termism of this case, it is not the failure of our current approach to promote ethical business conduct in my opinion. Because there are no technical problem or issue with the car itself, the car is normal and not had any damage or broken engine at all. Nobody was being hurt, injured or killed by the “defeat device” in the car’s engine. So that this is not a really big problem at all because of no death informed. I consider this aspect because there was another case which is also in car industry but people had been killed up to thousands number. This case is conducted by Chevy Corvair model of General Motors which is the most powerful car corporation in the United States. There is even a book called “Unsafe at

He wrote this book because he followed up the case and tried to make sure everyone drive safe car. He stated in the book that from 1938 to 1954, about 5,000,000 reported accidents annually killed 40,000 deaths, and 1,500,000 injuries. It also indicated the problem coming from GM Motors who decreased the cost of necessary safety features of the Chevy Corvair model to increase their own profit. They created cars based on the idea that rear-engine car is more fun when crash than drive, and they created rear-engine car in the purpose of selling the component to make it cool and more easily to bump I think. However, they did not spend money on the swing-axle rear which helps drivers manage car easily. That is the reason making Chevy Corvair of GM Motors at that time killed lot of people. As in the “Unsafe at Any Speed” above stated regarding to the problem of GM’s misconduct: “the Corvair's single-piece steering column could impale the driver in a front collision.”, and “It leaked oil like a derelict tanker. Its heating system tended to pump noxious fumes into the

The CEO apologized to Nader in front of Senate and paid the fine. At the moment, he is working and teaching, but those experiences will always be in his mind. Some articles criticized that Nader telling a exaggerative story about GM Motors, they provided the evidence by stating the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s result reports when they tested these cars of GM. The results turned out that