In japan it's optimized for speed thanks to the IC working so fast so you are only slowed down if something fails. It rarely fails (if you're not a tourist...)

In japan it's optimized for speed thanks to the IC working so fast so you are only slowed down if something fails. It rarely fails (if you're not a tourist...) so you see people walking through them pretty quickly and I have seen people run into each other because they assumed the next person was gonna go through.