Originally Posted by
inet32
An old story by CBS says that foods like cheese and chocolate can look like explosives on airport screening machines . . .
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chocolat...irport-x-rays/
The point of
any pilot program is to work the kinks out of a new procedure before scaling it up to the whole system. You need to know how well some new process works, how long it takes, what kind of training works best, what kinds of problems or surprises you might run into, etc.
This is pretty standard in any industry for any new procedure you're rolling out.
TSA had extreme problems just training screeners on acceptable ID's. TSA is the sand in the cogs. If I recall it took a couple of years. I think the pilot program, in this case, is to see just what the public will tolerate. I've had about enough TSA to last a lifetime. TSA is both expensive and ineffective.