very true, an experienced driver will learn to press the button. I feel that my duty as a programmer is to make the robot as user friendly and easy to drive as possible. Perhaps find a happy medium, use both buttons and joystick movement? or better yet, make any operator input snap the robot out of auton_mode

What about the simple solution?
Having the driver pass retina, blood, urine, fingerprint and password-protected tests before allowing the joysticks to control the robot?

(Wink, Wink) ;-)

hrmm
 

That might be a good idea having a button to snap the robot out of auton mode. Well, if the robot is doing good by itself, the question comes to mind: why should the driver drive?

- Ryan

how is auton_mode set?
 

How is the auton_mode bit set? does the RC set it to 1 when the OI is off or no radio signal... (due to power cut for autonomous play) or is it get sent from the OI some how...or perhaps is it something else, i mean how does the competition control it? Anyone know this yet? I havn't been able to find it anywhere.
Thanks.

Why do this? Won't a human driver invariably be better than a autonomous one in? It's not like you need to be calculating re-entry trajectories or something that actually requires computer calculation. I can't see a circumstance where having the robot continue autonomously will be better than having the driver do his/her thing. Englighten me.

Re: how is auton_mode set?
 

See this. At competition the autonomous mode will be set using the competition port. There must be a radio link established from the OI to RC for the robot to operate, either in autonomous mode or normal mode.

You're most likely right, and I can't think of a particular circumstance where my method would be necessary. However, we're only a little into the second week, and I have no clue what my robot will be capable of and exactly what it will be doing in the autonomous period. Therefore, at present, I am still planning to use any input to deactivate autonamous mode. I may change my mind in the future, but not yet.