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Originally Posted by apalrd
This question comes up every year on CD.
John V-Neun wrote a great long blog post about the question a few years ago.
I think John sums it up pretty well. We can train students to drive the robot. We look for the things we can't train.
We also usually use similar criteria to determine the human player; they are usually a team member who we see with driver potential in the future. Frequently they become a driver a year or two later.
We will never issue a scored 'driver test' of any kind. |
On 422, it has always been something along the lines of the drive team always being "go-to" guys who rose above the rest throughout the season. The people that clock in every day probably know every nuance about the robot that you can't train or test. No obstacle course will teach it. My drivers had a sixth sense about the robot last year, they could feel how to lift it, turn it, spot the best places shoot by themselves... it was incredible.
There was no test. It was just them on the field, knowing how it worked.