[scooty199]

While I am a CS major and was a programmer for my FRC team and love the idea of autonomous and the challenge behind full autonomous competitions, I just don't see the benefit of implementing it in FRC.

While FRC has to make a challenging platform for its participants, it also has to make some form of an attractive showing for the spectators it does have. That comes in the form of human interaction and driving. As said previously, there's an exhilaration and excitement factor when you add the human element. FRC thrives on it as I've seen.


That said if they ever want to lengthen the time of autonomous to 30 seconds I'd love to see what the future members of the team I'm mentoring can do.

In addition, I believe the competition that does it best in terms of autonomous might be VEX U, 1 whole minute for autonomous allows a lot of freedom and capabilities out there.