


More evidence indicates that body scanners aren't such a great idea














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RE: Bah
By heffeque on 1/12/2010 10:39:54 AM , Rating: 2
Have you tried driving from New York to Ibiza? It's kind'a difficult, don't you think?

RE: Bah
By theapparition on 1/12/2010 11:14:08 AM , Rating: 2
Not to mention you're 1000x more likely to die in a vehicle accident.

RE: Bah
By lelias2k on 1/12/2010 11:20:18 AM , Rating: 1
In the mean time, China is building the biggest high speed railroad system in the world. Do we even have on real fast train in the US? (Amtrak's Acela is a joke, seriously...)

RE: Bah
By mcnabney on 1/12/2010 11:51:54 AM , Rating: 1
90% of America lacks the population density to make midrange rail travel economical. Long range is still best served by air.

That, and America is still in love with the car. You can't even buy a hybird or a compact without being call a p&*^sy.

RE: Bah
By HrilL on 1/12/2010 2:09:08 PM , Rating: 2
California is supposed to get one but its not even going to be that fast and it can't take large payloads. Seems like a waste of money for me. It doesn't follow the coast either so that leaves my area out of the picture. I just hate how the mixed it in with a transportation measure and its either all or nothing. If we get to vote then don't bulk things we want with things we don't.

RE: Bah
By Reclaimer77 on 1/12/10, Rating: -1
RE: Bah
By Solandri on 1/12/2010 1:18:57 PM , Rating: 1
The numbers vary depending on how you measure fatalities. The most commonly accepted metric is fatalities per passenger-mile (basically, how much safer is it if I fly to Florida for vacation instead of drive?). Air travel ends up about 5x safer by that metric.

And the BS at the airport typically takes less than 30 minutes, a couple hours on the worst days. I don't know how you can conclude that's more inconvenient than spending an extra 70-90 hours traveling by car.

RE: Bah
By frobizzle on 1/12/2010 2:26:32 PM , Rating: 2


Yes, driving to Spain would be quite difficult and likely fatal within the first mile after leaving Long Island!

RE: Bah
By kattanna on 1/12/2010 12:12:20 PM , Rating: 3
Have you tried driving from New York to Ibiza?

and that really brings up a valid point no one is talking about. ok, lets say we spend those $3 billion to equip all our air ports with these scanners.

aint going to do a darn thing about those flying in from other countries that dont even have minimal levels of security.. like the christmas day bomber.

RE: Bah
By theapparition on 1/12/2010 2:55:54 PM , Rating: 2
Airports that don't meet the TSA requirements are not allowed to fly into the US.

Airline security is all the political rage, yet no one seems to give a damn about our own borders. Canada has an rapidly growing Islamic population, and while many of those Muslims are good people, there's bound to be a group of radicals as well. Getting into the US is just a matter of walking through a treeline in many spots. Worse yet, it can be accomplished with heavy arms as well.

And let's not even discuss the southern border.

