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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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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