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Originally Posted by nstephenh
A note about hitting the wall in auto: If you are using a time or distance-based autonomous to travel a certain distance, you run into issues with sticking on defences. We had issues not getting traction with the rock wall immediately, and so we had to increase our autonomous driving distance such that if we didn't get traction, it would get over eventually, and if it did... well... "BANG."
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NO - this is not an excuse, especially from a team that just this weekend won an Innovation in Control Award!! (I certainly hope it wasn't for your "navigation" system.) Everybody else seems to be able to avoid it - why can't you?
I totally agree - it should be a Yellow card for the first offense, and a Red for the second. If a team can't control their autonomous, then they shouldn't run it until they can. If a team persists in doing this during teleop, then there is absolutely no excuse.
I know we try to be all GP and everything here on CD, but in this instance, I think some public shaming of those who persist in this lazy practice is totally appropriate.
(And no - my team is not one of those who have had their DS unceremoniously dumped - at least not yet! I just think it's a real shame that some teams have no consideration for the teams behind the opposite driver station and for the hard work that others have put into controlling their robots properly.)