The real pests
Are we (American consumers) going into another "Anti-Bacterial" OCD phase???? Is every machine from now until the asteroid hits going to have some bell and/or whistle so they can market it as a clothing sanitizer?
Boosted hot water temperatures can kill a lot of bacteria (and, I think more significantly, clothing mites and eggs/larvae of other pests)but they're more useful IMHO for deep cleaning clothes. And, as somebody so wisely said on this site a little while ago, our Mothers (and Others) washed our clothes in less ambitious machines and we were reasonably healthy and well dressed.
...I'm much more interested in a machine that gets rid of Republicans.