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Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by justin66 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:10PM (#15029735)
> Besides the horrendous patent issue (say goodbye to market competition)

Bullshit. There are any number of ways to ensure the same functionality (just point a camera at the blade and have a computer stop the blade before it cuts somebody, rather than after, would be one obvious improvement) and if stopping the blade is mandated there will be plenty of competition.

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Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by saalweachter on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:29PM (#15029904)
Also, patents expire. I don't know when the patent for this particular device was granted, but given that NPR wrote its first article on them in 2004, they can't have many years left of patent protection.
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