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Instead of having a human poke around in your bag, the machine scans it for a variety of threats in just a few seconds.
You hold your ticket up to the machine, and it assigns you a pod. Close the door and walk around to the other side. In the time it takes you to get over there, the machine scans the bag for a range of threats.
There are some obvious issues with the embedded company video but those are easily remedied. It would be great to see these kinds of systems in place rather than the awful TSA procedures many of us have to go through now.
Or, just the standard metal detector and a giant framed copy of the U.S. Constitution.
Or we could implement the effective things Israeli airports do with fewer resources and more thought.
Q: How well does it tell between cheese and plastic explosive?
As well as the present machines do.
No, we’ll never do that, because that requires investing in human beings. You have to hire people, invest in their training, and then pay them a good wage to implement the Israeli system. Here in the US, what the government wants to do is award a $50 billion contract to some buddy of a Senator to build some kind of machine that can be put at the airport and manned by disposable $8/hour workers.
The best part of this is it causes the last 10% of cancers that current airport security scanners were not causing. So soon you will be able to get a full 100% does of carcinogens with every flight.
With zero evidence of that with regards to this story, your statement is just silly.