You are an engineer on a team developing a radically new battery invented by your immediate supervisor, a successful and famous inventor. Preliminary tests suggest that the new battery, if used in automobiles, will triple range over the best existing battery. Detailed tests have not been made as to the safety or lifetime of the battery. But the inventor urges immediate introduction to the market, using his personal reputation as a guarantee to customers of the value of the product. Only by testing it in actual use, the inventor argues, can any remaining “bugs” be identified and removed. You are concerned that customers will regard the inventor’s confident statements as an implied warranty. You urge delay until safety and life tests can be done. The inventor, your immediate supervisor, rejects this approach. What do you do?

Use the Engineering Ethics Matrix.