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Re: Driving long?

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday View Post
We decided to go for wide for two reasons: Firstly, it makes balancing easier with three robots. Sure, you can go for long and rotate on the bridge, but that takes time.
Less than a second for us, and we can drive sideways afterward. I wouldn't recommend it without a zero-turn-radius robot.
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