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Originally Posted by The Swaggy P
Yeah, I would agree that shouting "ROBOT!" is annoying, but then again, I have been told by FRC Safety Advisors to yell it in previous years.
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Safety Advisors are not always properly aligned with actual safety practices. I have seen them insist that students wear gloves when drilling. I have seen them physically pull students away from their work and shout in their faces. If what they are telling you does not seem reasonable, you should acknowledge that you heard it and get another opinion from somebody with more experience.
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Originally Posted by The Swaggy P
So until FIRST officially removes this requirement, and doesn't base a safety award off of it, I'll probably keep yelling it when the robot's moving around....
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There was no such official requirement, and FIRST already explicitly discouraged it more than a year ago.
http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...Manual-Release
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Originally Posted by Frank
...stop yelling ‘Robot’ to let others know you have a robot on the move. Please.
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Originally Posted by Oblarg
At the Greater DC district, all robot traffic ended up routed through one narrow hallway, and it was often clogged. I can't imagine what we would have done if no one had shouted "Robot!," or at least shouted something in a loud enough voice to alert you that they were trying to pass. If only we all had eyes in the back of our heads...
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Alternatively, we could have people in the front of the robot to calmly clear a path for it.