[jvriezen]

So what I think Al and Jon are saying is that you should (and RI's will) assume the worst case that your robot will dry fire at some point unexpectedly regardless of your mechanisms designed to prevent that, because mechanism fail, especially when interactive with other bots.

If it only fires 'safely' with a ball loaded, then that is not good enough, and the robot is considered to be too unsafe for FRC standards, and it probably shouldn't be good enough for your team's standards due to the risk of serious injury.

Make sense?