Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up
thejml@lemm.ee 11 months ago
passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned
They can’t even reliably scan a QR code, how can they pull that off with 100% accuracy?
Y’all know the: “Please remove item from the bagging area” “Please wait for an attendent”
But instead of self-check-outs, its airport security.
“Face not recognized, please wait for an agent”
You’ll wait 5 hours, you get strip-searched by border agents, and your plane already left, and no refunds.
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To be fair the bagging area issue is usually caused by a bad configuration, and usually weight based, not camera recognition.
I think the lesson to be learned is that everything works in the demo (except when it doesn’t), but when it’s deployed to thousands of sites by the cheapest contractors, operated by untrained and unmotivated personnel, and not calibrated or maintained over its lifetime… the reliability goes down a bit.
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TSA in the States has already pulled it off. they use sources they already have like your current and past passport and ID photos for verification and do not store the pic they take when crossing TSA. that’s what the signs say at least. I guess it’s good enough for them already…
Rob1992@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeaaah iirc they will forever keep the fingerprints of anyone that wants to enter the USA