Visual Body Scanners Replace Metal Detectors in TSA Trial
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Body scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at Tulsa airport
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 metal detectors that have screened airline passengers since 1973. Airports in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City will join the test in the next two months, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.
The scanners aim to close a loophole by finding non-metallic weapons such as plastic and liquid explosives, which the TSA considers a major threat. The machines raise privacy concerns because their images reveal outlines of private body parts. [
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Re: Visual Body Scanners Replace Metal Detectors in TSA Trial
Weird since they been in pilot for some time. I guess USA Today had space so they rehashed an old story.
Re: Visual Body Scanners Replace Metal Detectors in TSA Trial
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Originally Posted by emshighway
Weird since they been in pilot for some time. I guess USA Today had space so they rehashed an old story.
Ooops, I thought so. Maybe they started at Tulsa today.
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