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Re: Driver Station Vision?

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Originally Posted by agartner01 View Post
By the way, EricH quoted rule T33 awhile back, I'm going to bring that up again:

So my question is: how do non-powered signaling devices != hands?
If you have something that attaches to your hands, or that is held in your hands, to allow the laptop to see it better (or, more to the point, to make sure that the laptop is getting the correct input hand), then that is your non-powered signaling device. That is the ONLY way you would have even half a chance at being legal for more than the first time you tried this.

And, like Frank said, the rule disallows any input from the drivers. Control with hands is input. As I noted before, when talking about the discussion when automode first came out, that would be akin to using the reset button (or appropriate substitute) to control the robot during automode. Unless it is specifically declared as legal, like the Kinect, then I would assume that this method is not legal.
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