Thank you, Pong!

After hearing the ethical issue of Toyota, Now, I would like to move on to another ethical issue - the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, part of the Department of Transportation. Its mission is Save lives, prevent injuries, reduce vehicle-related crashes. However, it didnt do really well in this case. Id divide my presentation into three parts, insufficient attention on investigations, unbelievable limited resources and insufficient working team. First, the NHTSA didnt pay much attention on the investigations. In March, 2004, the NHTSA conducted the first investigations about speed-controlling problem and it was closed when the NHTSA fails to find a "defect trend." In August, 2005, the NHTSA conducted the second evaluation after a Camry owner reported inappropriate and uncontrollable vehicle accelerations." After that, Questionnaire was sent to car owners, hundreds of people report problems with acceleration and braking, but the NHTSA determined that their concerns were of ambiguous significance". Therefore, there were no further investigations in 19 Camry and Lexus models that are potentially involved. In my point of view, the NHTSA didnt pay much attention on these two investigations because as mentioned by Pong, Toyota had found the problems in 2003, but the NHTSA, being a government branch, cannot find the problems. It is impossible. The reason is that the NHTSA didnt pay enough attention to it, didnt check it carefully. Having examined the insufficient attention on investigations, let me talk about unbelievable limited resources. In September 2006, the NHTSA conducted the third evaluation after another Camry owner petitioned the administration to investigate the multiple "engine surging" incidents. However, once again, the NHTSA failed to identify any problems. But the reason was really strange. It was the need to best allocate limited administration resources. In my opinion, it is hard to believe the NHTSA, being a government branch, has only very limited administrative resources and cannot allocate for investigating petitions related to human lives. Investigating car problems is one of the major works of the NHTSA; however, the NHTSA cannot allocate resources to do that. Its ridiculous! After talking about unbelievable limited resources, Id move on to the last part insufficient working team. There are no computer science and electronic engineering experts working for the NHTSA. Its unbelievable! Being a government branch for traffic safety

Conclusion To conclude, in our presentation, we have discussed the timeline of the Toyota Recall, the ethical issue of Toyota and the NHTSA. Obviously, the Toyota recall incident can be avoided if both Toyota and the NHTSA do their job ethically. In the near future, we hope that Toyota can work diligently on quality control and the NHTSA can react faster so that there will not be any similar case happened again. Thank you!