In article ocal, "J. Clarke" wrote:
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In article m,
"Lee Michaels" leemichaels*nadaspam* at comcast dot net wrote:

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I AM a safety freak.



There you have it. You HAVE to be 110% awake, NO routine cuts, perfect
set-up and materials...

For a super careful, vigilant user, RAS's offer only a small set of
advantages that simple aren't worth the danger.

What's "the danger"?

On a table saw you move your fingers into the blade.

Fairly easy to do, since you're using your fingers to feed the wood into the
blade.

On an RAS you move the blade into your fingers.

Only if you're stupid enough to put your fingers in front of the blade.

Either way you have no fingers.

How is one "more dangerous" than the other?

See above: the RAS rides on rails. Keep your fingers away from the path of the
rails, and there's no problem.