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Re: Weirdest problem in autonomous mode.
Our team experienced an extremely similar error, and we too isolated the issue to the safety update to the config timer within arcade drive Although we initially tried to circumvent the issue by disabling the timer in Begin, this did not fix our issues in Autonomous. Our ultimate solution was to rewrite the WPI Robot Drive libraries without the safety update.

Autonomous is fixed, and now operates fine the first time through after reboot as well as every subsequent time.

We still use watchdog, although our timeout is 1 second rather than the default of 0.5 seconds.

Obviously, we have had a considerable amount of issues with the safety features provided, and I too feel that by eliminating them we are making our code more vulnerable. Any suggestions?, or can we be confident that there will be no issues at competition?
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