Sandy is an engineer on her way up in a major automobile manufacturing firm. She learns, through departmental gossip, that a new car designed by another department is being tested and has revealed a possibility of gas tank explosion on impact.

She is told that the car is not going to be redesigned until next season. Upper management’s cost-benefit analysis indicated that the slight risk to a few human lives did not justify the enormous economic losses involved in pulling the car now.

Sandy is appalled. Can she say nothing and condone the selling of a potential death-trap? But if she speaks up, the firm will suffer, the workers in the department who designed the car will suffer, and, of course, she will probably lose her job.

What should Sandy do?