TSA plans to make their Security System more Efficient
I know many of us dread those awful long waits at the airport caused by security screens -- especially if you are an avid traveler. That is why I was glad to see this in the news: the TSA is amping up their technology.
Basically, the TSA is planning on testing two potential changes to the airport security system.
1) Replace x-rays with CT scanners
-Creates a through 3-D image (and certain items can be "taken apart" to analyze) instead of a 2-D image
created by the x-ray machine
-Easier for screeners to look at, which could speed lines up
Analogic expects to roll out machines in late summer or early fall.
2) Labeling bins with a metal plate so that the right bin gets checked and lines do not need to be shut down (How is something so simple not implemented yet?)
-Bins that are "flagged" are now easier to locate and doesn't end up in line hold-ups because the flagged
bins went missing
Research sponsored by SecurityPoint showed a 21% increase in passengers screened per hour...
and
...most of the increase in passengers per hour resulted in an 83% drop in bad bag handoffs.
What are your thoughts on this?
Any fun airport stories to share?
Thanks.
I don't get why fuckers complain/hate TSA. I don't want another 9/11 happening in this great country EVER again. I'm willing to wait 2 hours if it means searching everybody or those who...are wearing.. yeah you get the point.
Agreed, I appreciate the TSA, but everyone makes fun of them because of things like the 3-ounce rule. There's a [Key and Peele video](
) making fun at the TSA and how they get their ideas for the policies/rules.
Because it isn't fucking security. It is theater, it gives idiots the idea they are safe. It is a joke.
If they can make it more efficient that would be great. I always hate it when I am stopped and given a pat down. I think one of the best ways to improve efficiency would be to boost pay and aim for better employees.
Adopt a system like the one in Canada. Private firms get certified to do airport security. They need to hit certain efficiency figures to remain hired. If they fail they are replaced.
TSA sucks because it is a government agency. They routinely fail at catching weapons or being efficient, yet nothing happens. A private firm would have been fired or replaced at this point.
Preach
I don't think a private firm is better than the government in all cases (private prison using sugar to treat wounds) but in this case I think a private firm is an excellent solution. Especially since the TSA is rude, ineffective, and slow.
SB'd
Just get precheck, it's not that expensive.
Spent two weeks in Costa Rica one year and flew back through MIA on the Sunday before Christmas (22nd or 23rd or something).
Was instantly the best $100 I ever spent....even if I never planned to use it again (which I have, repeatedly, and have gotten for my two kids, too...)
$85 for 5 years. It's a killer bargain.
TSA... efficient...
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This is total bullshit, the TSA isn't security it is merely theater of security and a jobs program for idiots. This new shit is just a lobbying payback. CT scanners are horrible for people to be around, far far worse than x-rays. It is just a giant money suck.
Totally agreed - numerous instances have shown that TSA routinely fails tests to detect drugs, weapons, and explosives. Security theater to the max. For those who think TSA does a good job, a quick Google search will show otherwise (handy links below).
"TSA Still Failing to Detect 95% of Threats...The TSA has failed to meaningfully detect dangerous items going through the checkpoint for years. Two years ago their disclosed 95% failure rate seemed shocking and surprising to many but is hardly new, ten years ago they had a 91% failure rate" http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2017/07/03/new-test-tsa-still-f…
"Red teams with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General were able to get banned items through the screening process in 67 out of 70 tests it conducted across the nation" http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-sc…
"TSA failed to detect 95 percent of prohibited items at Minneapolis airport" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/6/tsa-failed-detect-95-per…
TSA's budget is over a third of NASA's and the organization has NEVER caught a single terrorist. This journalist detailed how easy it would be to actually do so if you had more than 5 brain cells: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carr…
Since I got TSA pre-check, I've never had to wait longer than 10 minutes on the security line. Highly recommended.
Although TSA has some incompetent employees, the extra security is necessary in the era of radical Islamic terrorism.
Creating a more thorough image which can be picked apart is supposed to make security faster? Doesn't even pass basic logic. It will end up being more complex, more steps, more training, more expensive.
TSA is such a joke. It is a true national embarrassment that the land of the free and the home of the brave has a bunch of fat idiots "screening" anyone getting on a plane.
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