Originally Posted by
diburning
It's not that the machines are slower, the TSA agent is slower now that they can look around and rotate the image, etc. With the old machine, they had the options of looking at various layers via various xray wavelengths. With the Analogic machines, they can now have a 3D 360 view in any direction.
I agree that's likely, but the reason for the slowdown is irrelevant to passengers. More active lanes are needed if these machines stay and if the operators can't go faster.