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as i said before, i have a handicapped member of my team who is a potential driver. i think she has what it takes, and i'm pretty sure she can be a pretty good driver. this rule would hinder her abilities to be a driver. why? CAUSE SHE CAN'T JUMP 3 FEET IN .000002 MILLISECONDS! sure, she'd be able to make it in a couple of seconds max, but she can't launch herself like everyone else. second, she can't use a wheelchair, and won't use a wheelchair. why? she's not allowed to according to another FIRST rule, and she'd rather walk then use a wheelchair when possible.
as you can see, this puts me in a very hard postion. i've told her that she can most likely be a driver, if she can drive the robot good in the shop. if we have this rule, it will more or less stop her from being a driver. for the rest of the team's sake, we can't be loosing because she has an unfair disadvantage.
to get rid of this rule, a simple solution. make the E-Stop button work once during the 15 second period. hit it, you're disabled till the beginning of manual mode. it's fair if you ask me. team has one chance to stop a crazy robot. shouldn't be that hard to add in, i would think.
in any case, this rule has made my life much harder, because i don't want to tell my team member that she can't drive because of a stupid rule which is completely unfair to her. this is the most un-FIRST-like rule i've ever seen before. as far as i know, FIRST has been about getting EVERYONE, not just the healthy (as in not handicapped) people. this rule kind of shatters that notion of mine.
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