Recently, the auto parts supplier Takata Corp. has been targeted in the auto industry. Four deaths and numbers of severe injuries have resulted associating with the faulty airbags Takata offered.
Particularly, the automaker Honda is experiencing enormous losses. It is claimed that some airbags exploded when deployed, sending out metal fragments which threatened customers’ lives. Honda has recalled over 5 million U.S. vehicles with this issue.
The supplier Takata definitely is the ultimate criminal in this case. Takata intentionally hid the examination of airbags and secretly deleted the data. Such unethical conduct makes me ponder. How ironic it is? Shouldn’t airbags be the lifesaver in a life crisis. But now, it is the most deadly weapon that accelerates deaths. I would say that Takata is a corrupt company that ignores the value of a human being’s life.

In the other hand, Honda timely realizes the significance of business ethics (more than just ethics such as environment protection, it is people’s lives we are talking about). It took initiatives to spend millions of its revenue to remedy such fault by recalling the vehicles. This happens not only to Honda, but as well as well-known automakers such as Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Mazda etc., revealing the fact that greater numbers of drivers are potentially in danger.
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