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Re: Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Practice fields are sometimes backed up for days. It's completely impractical to expect every team to be able to just go to the practice field spontaneously whenever they have to do a simple test.

How about we don't outlaw perfectly acceptable, and necessary, practices because of a few foolish teams?

We, and many others, can't test our tote collection and lift systems without putting the robot on the ground. If you raise the robot the mechanisms don't work. We can disable our drive code. We always have someone hovering over the space bar to e-stop the robot. We could even unplug the speed controllers if we have to. We have safe practices, there's no need for blanket, overly broad rules that hinder teams' ability to do what they came to the regional to do.
The point of this discussion (at least to me) is to explore ways of safely testing your robot. If everybody takes sufficient precautions so run away robots do not happen, then the powers that be will not need to make a rule against it. A couple of incidents and rules will happen.

As others have noted one basic safety rule is being sure the operator is ready to use the disable button the instant something unexpected happens.
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