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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Without any standardized benchmarks to test completed drivetrains, I have no problem with "geared to" comparisons. It's still the most useful shorthand to compare different drive speeds.
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The problem is robots that are "Geared to [x]" will not even theoretically reach that speed. If I say I geared my robot to 25 ft/s, it will never reach close to that. In fact, if I say I geared my robot to 20 ft/s, it will actually go faster than the one "geared" to 25 ft/s. A more useful metric would be something like "it goes covers 20 feet in 2 seconds from a stop". That's something that's actually somewhat easily measurable and useful.