An Automobile Trolley-Repair Truck

Occupational injuries in automobile repair workers.

Mechanics are exposed to varied work stressors such as hot noisy environments, strenuous postures, improperly designed tools and machinery and poor psycho-social environments which may exert an influence on their health and safety. The study aimed to examine the occupational injury patterns and identify work stressors associated with injury amongst automobile mechanics. A descriptive ergonomic ...

Solving the Trolley Problem

One might despair of ever arriving at a principle adequate to capturing and accommodating our intuitions about the full range of cases that have come to be known as “trolley problems” (roughly speaking, cases where one must choose whether to kill some to save others). But suppose there were such a principle, as indeed I imagine there probably is. For the moment, just call it Q. Is there such a ...

Does a Gender Bias Exist in the Automobile Repair Industry?

Scheduling of Mechanics in Automobile Repair Shops Using Ann

Scheduling problems are NP – Hard combinatorial optimization problems, since many algorithms have been developed which offers new promising insights for solving resource allocation problems. Considering the problems faced in automobile repair shops, who sets the customer due dates of the car based on processing time, jobs already waiting for processing and mechanic available time. Also the work...

Solving the Trolley Problem

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The Trolley Problem has baffled ethicists for decades (Foot 1978; Thomson 1985; Fischer and Ravizza 1992) and has, more recently, become a focal point for research in moral psychology (Petrinovich, O’Neill, and Jorgensen 1993; Greene et al. 2001; Edmonds 2013; Greene 2015). As the Trolley Problem’s interdisciplinary histor...