[Kevin Sevcik]

This only applies to devices that MUST be worn or held by the operator during autonomous. If you can simply set the controller down on your driver station during autonomous, then you'll be fine.

The idea here is that operators shouldn't be able to interact with the driver station during autonomous. So controllers can either stay connected, but be completely untouched during autonomous, or stay in contact with an operator, but remain disconnected during autonomous.

This is probably why the Kinect was ruled against as a controller, since it could allow an operator to interact with the driver station during autonomous without touching it.