Basically, they was a flawed car design. But the cost of settling court case for car burning people is less than the recall cost, so they didn't do a recall.
I asked myself that question a few years back... and I find dark grey (basically black, but not 'solid' black) on beige background works pretty well for me.
I also tend to turn the brightness of my screen down. It feels like reading pages on an old book.
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This is the famous example we used in our Engineering ethics lecture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto
Basically, they was a flawed car design. But the cost of settling court case for car burning people is less than the recall cost, so they didn't do a recall.
I asked myself that question a few years back... and I find dark grey (basically black, but not 'solid' black) on beige background works pretty well for me. I also tend to turn the brightness of my screen down. It feels like reading pages on an old book.