10 August 2010 - traffic engineering

Airline security is not about security, which is unachievable anyway, it’s about what really matters, the feeling of security. Inconveniencing people makes them feel safe. It’s time to loft that principle to the next level to solve one of the great quandaries of our age, and at last to bend our decades of traffic engineering experience to their true purpose. Traffic lights should be retimed to induce traffic jams. The people will feel so safe that police officers can be fired en masse and the FBI can be dissolved, bringing many governments back to solvency.