I've said it before in another forum and I'll post it here for the masses:

"Arc-fault breakers are the airbags of the electrical industry." [Linked Image]

[rant on]

Another useless piece of junk which has the (high) potential to either malfunction or worse, provide a false sense of security.

I have yet to see any organization or the NFPA for that matter prove statistically that arc faults are suddenly extremely important to protect the public.

Maybe I need to think up some useless piece of garbage that will allegedly make the world's electrical systems safer and buy my way into making it a Code requirement.

[rant off]

Stupid should be painful.