Originally Posted by
sbagdon
I suspect ATR is completely doable, yet not sure about it, if using the current scanning technology. If you took away all of the safety protections, used a couple of different scanning technologies at once, and threw the time at the software, I'm sure it could be done. Just doing it with humans, in a single bandwidth, that seems to present some sisues.
Of course it "doable"; they've been "doing it" in AMS for at least a year now! You don't have to throw away safety precautions or change the scanning technology; AMS is doing it with the same MMW scanners that TSA uses.
There are a few plausible reasons TSA is not implementing ATR now. First, it would mean removing the pervy booths in the back and getting rid of the extra screeners, just as they're in the middle of installing pervy booths and hiring extra screeners. Second, they don't seem to trust ATR to find everything, although judging from the reports of patdowns after the NoS, they also don't trust NoS Mk 1 to find everything either. Third, those who would profit by selling ATR upgrades don't seem to have made the right "campaign contributions" yet.