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Would you do this?

Poll - Total Votes: 35

Heck yeah! I'd pay $400 to never have to carry a car key again.

No way! I don't want any chip in my body.

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Some guy bought a brand new Tesla. He paid an additional $400 to have a chip implanted in his hand so he wouldn't have to carry a car key. Would you do that?

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4meAndyou · F

If the car jackers were torturing you for your keys, do you think they would hesitate to cut off your hand?

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

I probably would. There are microchips in my dogs in case they ever get lost and they're as happy as can be. I think people often let paranoia or some appeal to purity let them lose sight of the bigger picture, which is that technology tends to make our lives a lot easier.

People carry phones with them everywhere they go and those things are basically a bunch of microchips we can access with our fingers

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@deadgerbil It's not surgery. It's more of a subdermal injection. It's basically getting a shot, the needle's just slightly bigger

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HootyTheNightOwl

@deadgerbil Lol, girls have been doing this in the name of "birth control" for years.

TexChik · F

OH heck no! Who knows what crap that signal will end up doing to human tissues. If cell phones can cause brain cancer, imagine a ship inserted under your skin emitting RF signals. No thanks.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

It does mean no one else can ever drive his car, which is sort of limiting.. And what about when he sells the car??😷

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@whowasthatmaskedman I'm sure you could easily deactivate or reprogram the chip if you needed to, so that you're not basically married to a car

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HootyTheNightOwl

I've got another 30+ years ahead of me - the way that I see it is that I might not have much choice in the matter.

Sure, this one is just for the guy's car... but look at where cars have gone in my lifetime. We have power steering, airbags, keyless entry and start up, and now electric cars on the market.

In time, they will find more and more ways to cram even more data on those grains of rice... your bank card, your medical records, your house key, the lot.

As for tracking you??? They already do. If you have a mobile phone, then they know where you are every second of the day. If you think you are smart by not having a mobile phone, you're being recorded on countless CCTV cameras, dash cams and doorbells every time you set foot out of your door. There's nothing you can do to hide anymore.

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HootyTheNightOwl

@Stereoguy Could you imagine anyone from the 80's or after being placed behind the wheel of the type of car that my parents had and driving it without complaints???

I'm aware that some of the things you mentioned exist, but I don't see them becoming more mainstream any time in the very near future... like driverless trucks, for example. If we have the technology now to build self driving cars, it makes sense that we will one day have trucks, too - but that could cause some issues with driving internationally and people smuggling.

If they're going to be making chips mandatory, then they will start smaller by implanting things like your medical records and the likes into you, then slowly expand the amount of data they hold from there. After all, even this method isn't idiot proof yet.

Bad guys can still take your corpse to places, as happened to a dead guy over here within the last couple of years.

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RebelFox · 36-40, F

I’d do it. Everybody is in your business anyway and nobody gives a fuck. Less to carry and I bet you can cut it out if you need to 😆

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RebelFox · 36-40, F

@Stereoguy to get in my car without keys, sure.

Truth is we’re all owned anyway. My cell phone is in my hand rn. You can’t get out of the system I’ve tried over and over 😆

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UnderLockDown · M

Not a chance!!

nedkelly · 61-69, M

I believe he has a chip implanted in his brain to help him think, sadly the chip was a Democrat chip

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nedkelly · 61-69, M

@Stereoguy and also repeats come on man many times 😁

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CheekyBadger · M

Don't think I would want to go that far - but you could have the chip implanted on a ring or bracelet so get same convenience.

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Carla · 61-69, F

Probably not. Not that I disapprove. Im just getting old and it's brain excersize remembering where I put my keys.

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sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

I'm gonna hold off until I can get a Google chip implanted in my temple. 😁

TexChik · F

@sarabee1995 So instead of Alexa, I can just say Sara? 🤭

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@TexChik Hahahaa, no!! This chip would be for me. With a Google chip in my temple, I could just think a question and the answer would be there in my head!! All the knowledge of Google just a thought away!

circleK · F

People might start calling me Chip and make 'chip off the old engine block' jokes.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

No and I wouldn’t buy a Tesla either.

theAlchemist · 56-60, M

Fuck no. Stupid sheeple bastard.

Fungirlmmm · 51-55, F

No way.

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Fungirlmmm · 51-55, F

@Stereoguy I have too many foreign things in my body already. Not gonna add any non medical ones.

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JustNik · 51-55, F

Personally I don’t find carrying a key to be all that difficult so I wouldn’t see the necessity. 🤷‍♀️ Maybe if I was one of those who chronically lost my keys.

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JustNik · 51-55, F

@Stereoguy i sink like a stone and work out at home so I guess I’m good. 😂👍

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CalmPassions · 31-35, M

Insanity.

Confined · 56-60, M

No thank you.

Dino11 · M

Idjit

CestManan · 46-50, F

I think it was more cause he wanted to feel as if he were "one" with his precious tesla.
People love their cars. Not sure why because every last one of them are just annoying pieces of crap.

deadgerbil · 22-25

Nah

MoonlightLullaby · 41-45, F

Absolutely not. My body is already full of gadgets and attachments I'm thankful for, but I'd rather [b]not[/b] have.

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ReneeT · 61-69, M

Not a chance. I'd rather risk losing the key

Wiseacre · F

Fuck no...would u?

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Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F

No I wouldn't

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KiwiBird · 36-40, F

Possibly.

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Mrjingleswilly · 51-55, M

Nah.

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DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F

So is that the car he plans to have for the rest of his life?

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DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F

@Stereoguy they are going to have to find a cheaper and better way to recycle these batteries because whether we want to admit it or not those battery cars are the future

Realistically, We can’t depend on fossil fuels forever