Dave Farber
2018-08-15 18:46:13 UTC
Date: August 15, 2018 at 11:21:36 PM GMT+9
Subject: Re: [IP] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners
Oh, great! Suppose I'm a carpenter, work jobs around town, can't afford a car, use the subway to get to work. So I carry my power drill, nail gun, and other tools with me (no checked bags on subways!).
Or, more personally, I used to carry a medical unit involving battery power, electric leads, electrodes, ... One day at the airport TSA did an extra-careful inspection because they mistook it for a tazer.
I have friends who have taken cookware to their young relatives by airplane. They take it carryon because of baggage weight limits. They report that TSA is actually familiar with this behavior. Oh, probably including pressure cookers.
So, are these machines good enough to select the actual dangerous items from the detectable ones, or will there be a paralyzing rate of false positives?
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-------------------------------------------Subject: Re: [IP] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners
Oh, great! Suppose I'm a carpenter, work jobs around town, can't afford a car, use the subway to get to work. So I carry my power drill, nail gun, and other tools with me (no checked bags on subways!).
Or, more personally, I used to carry a medical unit involving battery power, electric leads, electrodes, ... One day at the airport TSA did an extra-careful inspection because they mistook it for a tazer.
I have friends who have taken cookware to their young relatives by airplane. They take it carryon because of baggage weight limits. They report that TSA is actually familiar with this behavior. Oh, probably including pressure cookers.
So, are these machines good enough to select the actual dangerous items from the detectable ones, or will there be a paralyzing rate of false positives?
Subject: [ NNSquad ] [I predict a fiasco.] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway Body Scanners
Date: August 15, 2018 at 10:30:38 AM GMT+9
[I predict a fiasco.] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway
Body Scanners
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Los-Angeles-is-First-in-US-to-Install-Subway-Body-Scanners-490860461.html
Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system
in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers
for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday. The
deployment of the portable scanners, which project waves to do
full-body screenings of passengers walking through a station
without slowing them down, will happen in the coming months,
said Alex Wiggins, who runs the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority's law enforcement
division. The machines scan for metallic and non-metallic
objects on a person's body, can detect suspicious items from
30 feet (9 meters) away and have the capability of scanning
more than 2,000 passengers per hour.
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Date: August 15, 2018 at 10:30:38 AM GMT+9
[I predict a fiasco.] Los Angeles Is First in US to Install Subway
Body Scanners
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Los-Angeles-is-First-in-US-to-Install-Subway-Body-Scanners-490860461.html
Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system
in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers
for weapons and explosives, officials said Tuesday. The
deployment of the portable scanners, which project waves to do
full-body screenings of passengers walking through a station
without slowing them down, will happen in the coming months,
said Alex Wiggins, who runs the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority's law enforcement
division. The machines scan for metallic and non-metallic
objects on a person's body, can detect suspicious items from
30 feet (9 meters) away and have the capability of scanning
more than 2,000 passengers per hour.
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