Watch Out for Sunsets
If you arrive at Britain’s Stansted airport with a biometric European Union passport, a fancy camera will try to scan your face and match it to the data on your passport’s chip. If the sun is setting, it may have a problem: the passport hall faces west, and the sun’s rays challenge the new technology. When that happens, travelers are sent to the back of another line. An airport spokesman said it had doubled the number of e-gates to process passengers through border control, but the e-gates all still face west, even though the airport is aware of the issue. “The cameras are getting better,” said Ralph Gross of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. “But they are still not perfect.” (AC/London Guardian) ...Has anyone tried curtains?Original Publication Date: 17 July 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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