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George A. Peters Barbara J. Peters Taylor & francis www.taylorandfrancis.com 272pp., $96
Sartre, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky wrote about philosophy, life, and human existence. So, too, George and Barbara Peters write about philosophy--that of safety engineering in automotive design, in what can best be described as an undergraduate engineering text.
In their recent collaboration, Automotive Vehicle Safety, the authors mix one part philosophy with another part engineering in an effort to describe the ethics of design and the methods for directing those ethics toward the goal of making safer vehicles. Using examples from the real world, they illustrate how ethical design principles can reduce societal harm and...
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