Here’s my response to the ethical and professional issue like Blowing the whistle blowing, using a scenario that we had graduated from building a micro mouse and we are currently a registered Incorporated or Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET working on the team supplying driverless cars to a well-known on-demand car-sharing service, that if we discover that the design is flawed and that there is a large probability that one or more of the first production cars will kill a pedestrian. Our team’s responsibilities under the IET’s code of conduct. and the team’s responsibility as a whistleblower.
According the code of conduct on whistle blowing
- Members shall not undertake professional tasks and responsibilities that they are not reasonably competent to discharge.
- Members shall accept personal responsibility for all work done by them or under their supervision or direction. Members shall also take all reasonable steps to ensure that persons working under their authority are both suitably equipped and competent to carry out the tasks assigned to them.
- Members shall assess all relevant liability for work done by them or under their supervision and if appropriate hold professional indemnity insurance. Members whose professional advice is not accepted shall take all reasonable steps:
- to ensure that the person overruling or neglecting that advice is aware of any danger or loss which may ensue; and
- in appropriate cases, to inform that person’s employers of the potential risks involved.
Based on No1- 3 of the code , we would need to let the company know that the design could kill someone as fast as possible and refuse to take more tasks if we are unable tto fix the issue with the probability of killing someone.