From what I've found checking online, saws with SawStop are multiple thousands of dollars. ($2900 for their home-carpenter, table saw version.) Ryobi is a bud

From what I've found checking online, saws with SawStop are multiple thousands of dollars. ($2900 for their home-carpenter, table saw version.) Ryobi is a budget toolmaker. I'd bet that the reason he didn't buy one was Sawstop is because he decided that his chances of getting hurt were low enough to justify saving the $1-2k extra that a Sawstop saw would cost him.