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It's horribly unfair to criticize other powertool manufacturers for rejecting the technology. As was mentioned in a review by a different magazine, the costs of implementing a new technology like this into your existing product is tremendous business/financial risk. I'm a product designer, so I understand the how the designing, tooling costs, and market come together for a product. A switch like that would cost several hundred thousand dollars, and well into the millions once a production run and advertising, trade shows started. Like I said it's a big risk, lesser ideas have doomed companies in the past. Those companies weren't maliciously trying to keep their tool accident prone, they were just unable to take the risk to bring the product to market. Which worked out just fine for Steve Glass, I'm sure he makes more money with his own company than from selling the rights to Delta.

I agree that they are amazingly safe, I was really impressed by the video. However it is like OceanNavigator says, if you know it's really safe you stop respecting it and that transfers to other machines without the safe features. I don't want anyone to think I mean manufacture a DrillStop, PlanarStop, SandStop, BandStop etc.