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Originally Posted by Flak-Bait
I accidentally the verb.
Also, at busy regionals, the only thing that works is yelling "robot". Quite simply, tapping people on the shoulder and saying "excuse me" doesn't work.
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and so how does robot work any better? Tapping on the shoulder at least makes sense if the person was facing away and doesn't see the robot coming. And how does yelling help a deaf person at all?
Personally, I have always found it irritating/ironic/amusing that it would be deemed necessary to warn me that there were robots when robots were specifically the reason for the event. As if I didn't expect them!
It's one thing to use a warning when the situation calls for it, but so much of this we see at regionals - the florescent vests, the flashing lights, the batons and wand flashlights - is all show intended to win an award. Carrying it to the extreme that we now see has the opposite effect and dilutes the message by numbing us to the actual safety practice.