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Re:Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught by closewith on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:21AM (#40010790)
> It's interesting that we use machines, and when they flag the type of error they were designed to identify, we simply assume they don't work.

The question is what's the incidence rate of real glitches. If the system errs on 1% of boarding passes, staff will be used to overriding it.

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Re:Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught by pixl97 on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:37AM (#40013440)
>If the system errs on 1% of boarding passes

On a large plane that would be 2-4 people per flight.

Honestly an error rate of even .01% would be enough errors per day that your average gate agent would order ride pretty commonly.

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