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This is a market-based approach to the
often unequal supply of organs to
transplant and demand for those organs.
It is a system which links hospitals to
local dynamic traffic signs and responds
to shortages of transplant organs by
temporarily raising the speed limit for
motorcycles in the
vicinity of the local
specialist organ transplant hospital.
an offshoot from here
Subsidized_20GPS_2f...20for_20Motorcycles
[hippo, May 11 2017]
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The system could also operate cycle lane and pedestrian crossing lights slightly out of sequence. |
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This has the potential to respond very quickly. A longer term
feedback loop could be constructed by raising/lowering the
training standard of trauma surgeons. |
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... or indeed by raising/lowering the training standard of motorcyclists. |
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Raising the training standard of car drivers would also influence outcomes (lowering it simply isn't possible as it's already at rock bottom). |
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no no no, heroin overdose = no breathing. Hypoxic organs
aren't much use. Neither are electrically cooked ones. |
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It's important to get the right match between donor and recipient, in
terms of blood groups and probably other such things. |
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In this era of Facebook-scale databases of every living human, it seems
feasible to have drivers and riders register their blood group etc in a
way that can be linked to their licence plates, so that the speed limit
increases can be targeted more precisely. |
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