Ford Pinto...

I've actually found out something rather interesting regarding Ford Pinto from my Sustainable engineering class.. It's bout Ford Pinto which was designed in 19868, a rather old model of Ford, which has design problems when Ford discovered that rear end collisions propelled the gas tank onto the real axle in the pre launched test. Unless it is modified, the cars are prone to caught fire. But Ford did not modify it.

Why?

Cause Ford applied a generic cost/benefit analysis to all kinds of accidents based on Highway Traffic Safety Administration and it estimated the worth of human life which is $200,000 and it's own figures on death from car accidents. The analysis make them very much profitable cause the unit costs of remodifying costs around $ 11 per unit and it'll costs around $137.5 mllion to remodify 12.5 million cars.

But the Benefits of Not modifying is they expected 180 people suffer death, 180 serious burn injuries, and 2100 burned cars. And unit costs is $200,00 per death, $67000 per injury and $700 per vehicle. And it'll costs around $ 49.5 million as they don't modify the car and just pay for every case that happened due to the design problems..

It's sad to think of how human can actually come up with the price, which tells how much is a life of other human worth. I mean how can the designers sleep well of they Knew they will cause death to other persons life. Right? Think bout it. As I'm studying civil engineering, my lecturers often told us how much we as engineers influence the life of the persons who will be using the design facility we design. Life of a human is priceless, cause the suffering and pain which we cause to the person who love them is a very painful thing. It wil change the life of the person who loves them if something happened to their love one.

So, any profession tha u r in. Never take other people life for granted even they are from lower society. They deserve to have their life and to be in this world even it's not as good as ours.

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