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Re: Vex Pro Ball Shifter Questions

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
Otherwise, you could use an accelerometer! If nothing works, you could also just have a button on the operator console, like in our 2012 robot. (Supershifters were bad for it because they would flip the robot over )
Accelerometers don't measure velocity, they measure change in velocity. Also, having drivers constantly switch gears would distract them from driving well and would be much slower because drivers cannot respond as quickly as a computer can.
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