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Re: Do you think FIRST should extend the autonomous time

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
I'm drawing the conclusion that the average team inhales audibly and is therefore incapable of fielding a robot that moves reliably let alone one that moves autonomously for 30 seconds. It's not a function of focus; it's a function of lack of training, support, and reasonable expectations.
I don't think it's just that teams are all really bad generally or are afraid of autonomous. It's just really hard to do autonomous. We're a veteran team with very experienced controls mentors and students, and we just spent the last three hours diagnosing why our robot wasn't driving straight in autonomous. If autonomous was "easier" for the average team, it might make sense to extend it. Because most teams have so much difficulty getting autonomous to work, longer auto=more boring matches until you get to very high levels of gameplay. Almost all robots will probably just sit on the field for a while and not do much.
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