SawStop GIF

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Oh Boy, Howdy! "It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious." anonymous, (theoretically Murphy's 3rd law). Lord knows I spent half of my engineering career developing products with that on the forefront...and only got close.

Personally I prefer common sense and mechanically oriented safety systems. How about a foot switch with a quality braking system engaged when switch is turned off. The idea of a saw that self destructs based on "Relative" conductivity scares me more than the saw. First off I know my skin resistance is less than most people for some reason and second for the obvious stated above and then to disengage it because I'm cutting green wood...I'll be sure and stick with Old Saws, Thank You anyway!

I know Absolutely if I use a push stick and stay a bit offset from the diametral axis and keep all my other body parts way the heck away from a metal blade spinning at ~3k rpm that my body parts should be fine...but no guarantees. Kick back or other distractions are just not allowed in my mind. Still the possibilities exist for a blade to explode or being hit by a comet... Maybe we could buy Insurance for that¿ Support for legalized gambling is a whole other babbling hole...rabbits are banned legislatively.

To be legislated into having to buy (pay the additional legislative cost, tax and hardware/software) once again scares me more than the saw or going into space to wrestle a comet for that matter.