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It's the same exact question, if you have safety features available for dangerous tools, ones that cost extra, why aren't you employing them?
Use your words, a link isn't a rebuttal.
Just for fun, here's a bunch of professionals discussing why people who rely on saw stop are a liability on their floor... Up to and including "do not hire". It's exactly what I already described. This tech breeds complacency and there's more tools in that shop than the table saw. Professionals don't use saw stops.
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?262574-Sawstop-Injury-I-didn-t-think-this-could-happen/page12
I payed for the safety features I felt I needed and I'd do the same if I was buying a saw.
If you feel you need that feature on a table saw, frankly you shouldn't be operating one at all. Really. There's no shame in that. I am terrified of lathes and I won't use em. I understand they're useful and perfectly safe, but it's just a personal thing. If you feel that unsafe that you'll essentially pay an ante every time you want to make a cut? You shouldn't be using it.
Fact is that saw stop will cost you a bunch of money over the course of using it for a few years. It will ruin blades to protect... Damp wood. Or a staple, often found on lumber. And then you get to buy another charge for a couple hundred bucks. You'll do that twice before finally realizing it was just a money sink in the first place and you won't buy another.
Go ask twenty table saw owners the question, you're gonna get twenty identical answers.
First off, the brake is $100, not "a couple hundred". The blade is ruined, but decent blades aren't crazy expensive either.
A staple won't trigger the saw stop unless you are also touching it. It works on capacitance, and a staple doesn't have any capcitance on its own.
You must only surround yourself with people who are prejudiced against SawStops. Twenty identical answers? Come on! The company wouldn't exist if people didn't buy them.
When everything goes 100% perfectly, table saws are very safe. I have hundreds of hours using them, and not one injury. But if something goes wrong, I'd rather have the safety of a SawStop.
Growing up, my father told me of a friend of his who slipped when operating a table saw and fell face first onto it. He lived, but you can imagine the damage it did to his face. It went right between his eyes, thankfully. A SawStop would have prevented that.
Your car analogies are stupid, too... if I had a choice between buying a car without airbags and one with, I would buy the one with. Same with seatbelts and crumple zones. People like you have been around for hundreds of years saying shit like, "I don't wear a seat belt. They're for sissies."
Accidents happen even when you're taking all of the normal safety precautions. No gives a shit if some forum full of good ol' boys thinks using a SawStop makes you a bad person. Stop being such a hater. If someone wants to buy a SawStop, why do you care? Don't answer that. I actually don't care.
I don't own a SawStop, so I'm not trying to defend my purchase. I just think you're an idiot for going out of your way to trash talk them.