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Unread 03-13-2016, 07:35 PM
GreyingJay GreyingJay is offline
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Re: Banging the driver station

I like the red card.

We were at GTRC and had it happen to us - luckily we caught our stuff and were relatively unscathed - and saw many other teams suffer because of it. 1310 was down for several matches due to damage to their driver station laptop.

The rules do not seem to forbid it and Team Update 15 seems to say "it will happen, deal with it". But I do not think it is good to reward lazy programming. I get that you want to be able to breach the rock wall. But come on, how hard is it to put a timer on your code or add sensors?

I had several chats with our autonomous programming team and we agreed that even though it would be easy to do, and legal, it would not be either gracious or professional to use that tactic in our auto code.
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