Originally Posted by
trueblu
Not the same logic: if there is a real and significant risk of PED use on flights, and the technology exists to detect said usage, we're not asking for a huge leap to go ahead and develop said technology...unless the risk is 'not worth it'. Given that for the cost of deploying whole body scanners worldwide, to prevent more underwear bombers, for the cost of each life saved we could probably increase access of 1B people to clean water, I would argue that 'not worth it' suggests low risk...
tb
The difficulty is that the pico cell itself will cause interference if it searching for devices. So to have these installed to pinpoint devices would rather defeat the object.