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The government can and should mandate some kind of contact safety system now that it's been proven that it works. You could put it on saws, routers, planers or other tools that are hand fed. But the real problem is, that there is only one source for the technology, and it is unfair to blackmail manufactures through the courts. Manufacturers need to take tool safety seriously while keeping them usable. A cheap tools is just that, a cheap tool that often sacrifices user safety. I remember how people hated seat belts,when the government mandated there use.

Saw stop technology should be implemented industry wide. If it makes its inventor rich, well... he deserves it. Everyone is focused on how the tool was used and what the user could have done to be safe. Those are obviously good steps to take. But the fact remains that thousands of table saw injuries happen each year. All those trips to emergency rooms are just costs being passed from the manufacturers to the user. Even though those cost may be hidden by insurance, they are enormous. 1.5 million is peanuts compared to whats being lost. It's about time that manufactures worked a little harder to make tools safer, especially the ones most recognized as being major problems.