Melitota

I am all about shop safety and as a general rule I am all for anything that makes tools and my work place safer. The first thing my son and I ever made together with a power tool was a push stick. That said, I noticed that I couldn't find a price for this SAW STOP item anywhere on the internet. I kind of got the idea that people want to suck you in to see how well it works before they tell you what it costs; because we all know "you can't put a price on safety." Except, that we do so every day.
I work in highway construction and between our agency and our industry partners, we lose more than a couple people a year to motor vehicle collisions in the jobsite. The easiest way to stop that would be to close the roads during working hours. Of course that will never happen because the economic disruption would be tremendous. By the same token, NASCAR drivers walk away from high speed wrecks all the time. But passenger cars built to NASCAR standards would be too expensive for anyone to buy. Of course that would make my workplace a lot safer...; but, also a lot less necessary.
My point is we make decisions about how much safety is enough and how much "insurance" we can afford to buy every day. We just don't usually lay it out quite so explicitly - usually it's hidden in a layer of euphemism or obfuscation to make the medicine a little more palatable. This Saw Stop thing will be great if it's affordable, but if these lawsuits are going to price table saws off the market, what good is it? Is that really going to make anyone safer?