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Originally Posted by theanimal160
As the man pushing our robot around at the STL Regional, yes, having to yell EXCUSE ME ROBOT COMING THROUGH was on the way to and from every single match. There were two or three times when it was clear, and the only notable time I can remember the pit lanes being truly empty was after the last match of the finals.
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This doesn't answer my question. Of the people who hear you yell "excuse me, robot coming through", how many of them are actually in a position that impedes your travel or risks their safety? Unless your definition of yelling is very different from the dB standard, if this is greater than say 10%, the pits are way, way, way too crowded. This causes numerous other safety issues which are not addressed--and are in fact compounded--by the yelling to which you refer.
The aisles don't need to be
empty for polite, inside voice, requests to work. Anything but. In fact, they can be quite crowded. I probably ask 20 people to move every time we queue, and it
still goes faster than yelling robot to 10x more people than actually need to move--the latter is desensitizing, so people who are actually in the way react more slowly and must maneuver in a now more entropic situation. Now,
overcrowdedness poses numerous problems, but yelling is more an attempt to mask the symptoms than address the cause.
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Originally Posted by CENTURION
Robots often may have protruding arms or elements that (while inside the frame perimeter of course) may still hit people who thought they were out of the way. If you direct your warnings only to the people in front of you, who are in your way, people on the sides of you may not be looking out for you.
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I'm trying to imagine how this is possible. Does your robot overhang your cart or have an abnormal shape, etc? How can someone think their out of the way while being inside the frame perimeter?