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Re: paper: Have you noticed that you don't get full speed in FTC Autonomous?

I'm not buying.
You seem to be arguing against the evidence.

A cap on max power is only needed for synchronization.
Constant speed never needs it, so it doesn't ever have a cap.

If Run to Position ever needs to be synchronized for left/right motors, then the design is simplest to always run as if that's the case, otherwise, additional logic (essentially yet another mode) would be required.
Can more sophistication be added, yes, but the evidence seems to be that the designers didn't.
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