Liability doesn't wash because we would never advance if that was it. They did pumps and all manner of devices and go through trials etc to get them worked out and stable. They have lots of money! So the question still stands: Why didn't they bother? It could be a patent thing of course which is something you can ignore if it is for your personal use.
It's not just liability - although the the cost if someone ends up with a significant brain injury requiring 24/7 care for life that would be liability of millions, like potentially double figure millions. Clearly that's an unlikely extreme worst case scenario, but that's how risk analysis works. Not to mention the complete halt in sales that would happen if there was a technical glitch that killed someone. They need to make the risk of the worst case vanishingly small, whoever is using it.
It's also regulatory. EC marks/FDA approval to be allowed to bring it to market it would have to be fool proof. And I think that until relatively recently, the hardware to provide that foolproof safety factor was just too big to actually be able to carry it round with you, unless you had a shopping trolley!
I don't think they aren't bothering. I think there are just a lot of hoops to jump through. And not just hoops for the sake of it, but real safety assurances. Several companies are very bothered, and are very heavily investing, they are getting there with closed loop AP. Fingers crossed available in the UK by 2018? I want one with glucagon in though please
That's not anywhere near as catchy as two words: liability risk, though, and it's more vividly pessimistic, which is a bit of a shame, because
@tim2000s new toy is undeniably awesome!
