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Re: 3balls+3 hot goals+move 65pt Autonomous

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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296 View Post
Well, I hate to be a Debbie Downer about this, which is quite ingenious and awesome, but the rules do state:

"The match begins with one 10-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver."

While one might argue that the human player is free to do something to control, The argument can be made that the rules leave the term (in this sentence) driver ambiguous with their wording, as to mean void of any from of human intervention.
actually when the kinect was provided it was intended to be used during autonomous mode and also the rules simply state any control devices that are worn or held by the driver must be disconnected form the driver station. on top of that i asked about this specific situations and got this reply:
"Q55
Q.Are we allowed to use the kinect as part of our driver station during autonomous mode this year?
A.There are no rules prohibiting this."

so from all the information and rules i gathered this control method appears to be perfectly acceptable and legal