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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
$60 everytime that thing goes off, plus the cost of a new saw blade.
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I'm sure every single person whose hand has come into contact with a moving saw blade would gladly pay that price to avoid the situation.
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The company is currently trying to sue table saw manufacturers for them not having the technology on their saws.
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They're not suing other manufacturers, they're lobbying the government to require a blade stopping mechanism on all saws sold in the USA. I don't like the methods, but it kind of makes sense. Over the years the vast majority of table saw users haven't proven themselves responsible enough to use their equipment safely (i.e using a splitter and an overhead guard). If people took proper precautions this technology wouldn't really need to exist but almost no one does.