Originally Posted by
prestonh
Tsa isn't there to help the passenger 😕. They are checking id, electronically i presume. In this case it's to check ID. Valid ID means you board the flight. At some point most id validation will be electronic I am sure.
Not to mention that if this starts working well, you could use automated turnstiles to do the validation (kind of like the automated passport process in the EU). In this case, it's not about boarding, but about getting through TSA.