Our data: where YardRider's lawn mower information comes from

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission publishes the official recall notices for consumer products on its page CPSC product recalls. Each notice describes the products concerned, their model numbers and the remedy offered. Because it is an official register, it is the source we place first.

We take one field from it: the recall notice and its official link, shown on the recalled model. We checked all 201 models in our catalog against it. No recalled model has been found so far, so no model currently shows a recall notice. The source covers 0 models with data out of 201.

How we match a model. A recall is a candidate when it names the model's brand and one of the listing's model codes. An AI model then reads the recall's own text and keeps it only when it is the same product and the same model, not a neighboring one, a battery or an accessory.

Refresh and limits. We check the recall list again every month. A recall that does not give the model number cannot be matched with certainty and is not shown. The absence of a notice on a model page therefore does not prove that no recall exists, so you can also look at the CPSC page directly.

Each manufacturer publishes product pages, datasheets, user manuals and declarations of conformity on its own website, or on its group's. We use these documents as our second source, after the official recall register. Examples of maker sites we draw from:

• Cleva
• EGO Power+
• Black+Decker
• Craftsman
• Bilt Hard

This source gives data for 28 models out of the 201 in the catalog. The fields we use are: battery and charger included, battery system, highest cutting height, lowest cutting height, lawn size per charge, self-propelled drive, and warranty length.

How we match a model. For each model, we search for its exact model number on the maker's own website. A figure is kept only when our server opens the page again and finds both the model number and that figure on it. Retailers, marketplaces, comparison or review sites and manual-collection sites are never used as a source.

Refresh and limits. Every model is researched once, and new models are researched as they join the catalog. Many brands sold mainly on Amazon publish no specification page; their models keep only what their Amazon listing states.

A model enters the comparison when it reaches at least 3.5/5 and has at least 5 customer reviews on Amazon. Stock is not a criterion.

Prices come from the product pages on Amazon.com and are updated every 7 days. The date each price was collected is shown next to it. A model without a price is out of stock.

Each model has at most one badge, computed within its category: most popular goes to the model with the most customer reviews, and top rated goes to the best rating among the models with at least 100 customer reviews. The rule shows on hover.

In the AI search, you describe what you need in one sentence. An AI model turns it into the comparison's filters, which you see and can remove. It writes no answer and only handles searches about lawn mowers.

Every filter has a "?" that explains it. The filters and the sort are written into the page address, which can be shared. You can compare up to 4 models side by side; the best figure in each row is highlighted, and the comparison can be shared with a link.

A heart on every product card adds the model to your favorites. The list stays in your browser, and we never receive it.

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