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Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse
Slate ^ | December 30, 2016 | Ian Adams and Anne Hobson

Posted on 12/30/2016 11:39:26 AM PST by Zakeet

Much has been said about the ways we expect our oncoming fleet of driverless cars to change the way we live—remaking us all into passengers, rewiring our economy, retooling our views of ownership, and reshaping our cities and roads.

They will also change the way we die. As technology takes the wheel, road deaths due to driver error will begin to diminish. It's a transformative advancement, but one that comes with consequences in an unexpected place: organ donation.

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It's not difficult to do the math on how driverless cars could change the equation. An estimated 94 percent of motor-vehicle accidents involve some kind of a driver error. As the number of vehicles with human operators falls, so too will the preventable fatalities. In June, Christopher A. Hart, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said, "Driverless cars could save many if not most of the 32,000 lives that are lost every year on our streets and highways." Even if self-driving cars only realize a fraction of their projected safety benefits, a decline in the number of available organs could begin as soon as the first wave of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles hits the road—threatening to compound our nation’s already serious shortages.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automobiles; healthcare; organtransplants
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To: Zakeet
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse

 

Organ Shortage? What Organ Shortage?

 

Image result for organ store

41 posted on 12/30/2016 12:11:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Cowboy Bob

Or do what they do in China. Just kill any of the young men and women whose organs they want harvested for the elites.

The NWO wants total control over cars, money, etc., so they can control every single aspect of American life. That is the plan.

We better not allow the takeover of our cars—that which made us totally free to an exceptional degree never experienced by any other country. When they can control our cars by remote (which they are doing), they will be able to make us into complete slaves and control where we can go....like they do with Michael Savage. The NWO plan is to put us into little 10 x 10 ft. cubicles, destroy the Natural Family (so reproduction is only controlled by the State) and control every cent and every action we do. It is so they can kill and destroy everyone who doesn’t submit to their tyranny (like their idolized religion “islam” and satanism (sodomy/baby-killing).....just like their “utopia’ in China, of forced baby-killing, which the elites fund and control as their test case. Mao was funded and controlled by the globalists (sodomite satanists). It is all to destroy the Christian Worldview-—wipe Classical Christian worldview off the face of the earth. Christianity is the main target of 20th Century. More Christians were killed in wars, etc., than any other group. And when they took over Russia over 30 million Christians were annihilated by the Bolsheviks, all funded and controlled by Rothschild and his CFR NWO sick satanic sodomite group. (Secret societies).

It is the “Kill God” (Christianity) group for Satanism (total slavery.) Vice creates Slaves (Socrates). That is why our “Justice” (virtue) system only promotes Vice 24/7——yes, they promote the religion of Satanism in our “Just Laws” now to collapse civil society-—and our evil “lawyers/pundets allow it to go unchallenged to push us into a totalitarianism hellhole when it will be too late to take back freedom.


42 posted on 12/30/2016 12:12:16 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Zakeet

Slate ^ | December 30, 2016 | Ian Adams and Anne Hobson

OH...a “Hobson’s choice”....

These “duty to die” liberals certainly seem to have difficulty determining who to champion.


43 posted on 12/30/2016 12:14:20 PM PST by G Larry (America now has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: mazda77

Good Lord; slate is upset that not as many people are going to get killed on the highways?
There won’t be as many organs to harvest?
NEVER LET A CREATED CRISIS GO TO WASTE.


44 posted on 12/30/2016 12:15:47 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: I want the USA back

Don’t forget body shops and auto insurance people.


45 posted on 12/30/2016 12:15:58 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I know. I lived and worked among flaming liberals for years. A very unhappy and angry group. They all knew I was conservative but I got along with them by just being calm and logical.


46 posted on 12/30/2016 12:16:08 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Zakeet

I’m sure that the coding will include a dead man’s switch to include periodic mass accidents which they will promptly blame on ‘driver occupied vehicles’ being the cause- not the driverless

This is a plot to depopulate the country- look for massive accidents in heavily republican areas- and likely in heavily Christian areas-

terrorists will likely glom onto the technology to commit suicide bombings from a distance- only without the suicide-

Husbands or wives will use the technology to run over their spouses ‘accidently’ claiming the vehicle went haywire-

The mob will use it to exact revenge and claims’ oops- something went wrong- we were just trying to deliver legal goods to tony two toes- not sure what happened there- we loved the fella”

Driverless cars? What could possibly go wrong?


47 posted on 12/30/2016 12:16:43 PM PST by Bob434
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To: RoosterRedux

Are you sure? You’ll need to undergo regressive hypnosis to see if you are an alien abductee.;-)
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I was. They told me they’ve watching our planet for a long time, ever since they played the Voyager probe’s “golden record”. They said they came to get more Chuck Berry tunes.


48 posted on 12/30/2016 12:23:11 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: B4Ranch
But there's still a pilot in it.

Autopilot to an airplane is like cruise control for a car. It automates a key function, but doesn't eliminate the need for the operator.

49 posted on 12/30/2016 12:24:45 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Zakeet

We’ll be up to our eyeballs in lab-grown organs in no time.


50 posted on 12/30/2016 12:25:09 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Zakeet

It will also lower the demand for organs, since fewer people will be injured in car accidents.


51 posted on 12/30/2016 12:30:55 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Zakeet

So Slate’s complaining that too few people will die of accident trauma? OK, then...


52 posted on 12/30/2016 12:41:22 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Maybe they can start harvesting organs from prisoners serving Life terms?

From Slate staff.

53 posted on 12/30/2016 12:42:09 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Seruzawa

Wasn’t he, though?


54 posted on 12/30/2016 12:50:29 PM PST by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: LouieFisk
...Personally, I wouldn’t get in anything that “drives itself”....

As a retired old geezer all I can say is wait a few years.

I am looking forward to the day when I will be told that I have to get a self-driving car instead of "you have to give up driving".

55 posted on 12/30/2016 12:53:00 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Zakeet

Not to worry. The US feral government can always Hastings people that have tissue types that match important people.


56 posted on 12/30/2016 12:53:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: 5th MEB

Exactly. What else are we to expect from the “me, me, me” worshipers? Just in case I screw up my body, no worries, somebody will be killed so I can just order up spares. What a sick, and demented bunch of MFers. I normally don’t make it a point of pi$$ings in someone’s Corn Flakes, but in this case I will search these two fools out digitally so at least they will know how one other person feels about their debauchery.


57 posted on 12/30/2016 12:53:36 PM PST by mazda77
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To: CurlyDave
"As a retired old geezer all I can say is wait a few years. I am looking forward to the day when I will be told that I have to get a self-driving car instead of "you have to give up driving"."
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When I've geezered up to that point, I'll be fine with having other people give me a lift. That's what family, friends, buses and taxis are for! 😀
58 posted on 12/30/2016 12:58:14 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Cowboy Bob

Nice in theory, but given the Hepatitis and other diseases they are much more likely to carry, no.


59 posted on 12/30/2016 12:58:33 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Zakeet

I guess the Government will have to take over the task of providing organ donors now. Perhaps it can institute some sort of lottery system or it can use the mechanism already in use in Obamacare to wit triage based on a subject’s further usefulness to society. Or they can just designate the universally despised subhuman Christians as the organ donor source and give them all numbers


60 posted on 12/30/2016 1:01:22 PM PST by arthurus
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