This is in fact what the Sawstop does because if you use the wrong material it will engage and destroy your very expensive saw blades. This is one of the (many

This is in fact what the Sawstop does because if you use the wrong material it will engage and destroy your very expensive saw blades. This is one of the (many) reasons why SawStops aren't more popular and why they are in fact removable. So really, the sawstop is like Rust in that you can do what you want when it considers it dangerous by embedding c code, but it requires you to put in an annoying level of effort.