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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
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.
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No one disagrees with the point you're making about robots not hitting their free speed.
The point others are making is that in absence of good data on friction, teams should report free speed as that is a more clear comparison to others.
TLDR; I'd rather have someones idealized (frictionless) numbers than their BS guess at friction.