(Not the) Tunnel of Truth, O’Hare Airport © Laertes
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If a new idea the Transport Security Administration is exploring gets traction, those embarrassing pat downs at airports may be history.
You will instead be placed on a conveyor belt, and passed through a glass tube of sorts while you have the life scanned out of you. Proponents claim it’s a faster and easier process than the current one that causes so much distress and anger among passengers.
The idea has been proposed by Susan Hallowell, the Director of Transportation Security Laboratory (which sort of explains the futuristic concept) and the proposed glass tube is called the “Tunnel of Truth.” Sounds disturbingly like something out of a KGB torturer’s arsenal.
If all goes well, and you make it through the tunnel with no weapons on your person, you’re clear to board your flight. After collecting your shoes, that is. It turns out this ultra futuristic Tunnel can squeeze the truth out of everything, but your shoes.