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Re: Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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Originally Posted by philso View Post
While a proposed rule may make sense when examined in isolation, it's value is diluted when added to an already long list of rules (how long is the Game Manual and the Game Q&Q now?) that participants are less and less likely to read the longer it gets. The risk of something bad happening then increases as you add more rules. There are questions asked on CD where the answers are in the Game Manual and require little or no interpretation or cross-referencing to other rules.
I would imagine that it would be added to the Safety Manual and the Administration Manual since it would be a general FIRST rule and not game specific.

And if we are really talking about preparing kids for the "real world" industries, how many companies ignore significant safety hazards cause new rules would make "the manuals too long."

I am sure there are lots of teams who don't read the manuals as they are written now and that would be unlikely to change even if we did shorten them. TL;DR is a real thing after all. That is why (like other game and safety rules) it has be regularly discussed and enforced until it becomes as natural as wearing safety glasses.
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