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Originally Posted by robochick1319
Perhaps not but if it works for his team and even one other that is progress, right?
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Only assuming that it doesn't
not work for some other team so spectacularly that it actually adds to overall the safety risk. For instance, one of the hypothetical teams in this thread that makes mistakes pulling breakers or disabling code may position it improperly, or do a test that shifts robot CG such that it launches off the rig. Among other potential failure modes.
To be clear, this is at least slightly tongue-in-cheek. But there seems to be a lot of "my solution is foolproof, but here, let me build a better fool to break yours" going on. I have no reason to believe that this rig will actually harm anyone at SBPLI, and commend the effort towards what I hope and believe is a full spectrum attempt at safety culture. Kudos.
At the same time, I think we're all simply cautioning that, regardless of your solution, common sense/safety culture is still necessary to implement it properly. Raising the wheels is by no means an entirely safe solution. In fact, I can think of specific cases in which allowing the wheels to spin under power is
more dangerous than actually controlling that power digitally or electrically. Again, it takes critical thinking. Anything anywhere in life that is sold as a perfect solution comes with the danger that users will stop thinking about its risks.