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Because the law enforcement devices emit such a tiny rate of dose that it is impossible to harm someone while using it. "A person would have to be screened mor
by gohrt 10y ago
Because the law enforcement devices emit such a tiny rate of dose that it is impossible to harm someone while using it.
"A person would have to be screened more than a thousand times in one year in order to exceed the annual radiation dose limit"
- AstralStorm 10y agoEasily achievable with indiscriminate screening. How many times a year do you pass under the speed meter?
- bayesian_horse 10y agoOr once with the wrong settings or too long of an exposure. Or the operators get the scattering effects wrong...
- CamperBob2 10y agoOh, well, that's different, then. As long as the cops and TSA goons are qualified to tell when the machine is malfunctioning, miscalibrated, or otherwise going full-Therac 25 on us, we're good.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThose machines should be built to be at least as annoying as new cars - i.e. if anything breaks, any diagnostic fails, the machine should not start. They probably aren't built that way though because - unlike with cars - there isn't a profit motive to do it this way there.
- stordoff 10y agoIf you'd said, say, 50000 times, I might be more swayed, but a thousand seems easy to hit if these are widely used. If they're used daily, just passing two on a commute is enough to go over the limit.