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Originally Posted by orangemoore
If you replaced the driver station with the robot would your opinion change? Would you still suggest that it is a team's fault if they sit there and a robot drives into them at full speed? If they didn't move out of "the way "it would make it their fault?
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I think a reasonable change would be to call a field fault if a drivers station got knocked of during autonomous, but that is not the current rule. I am only reading the rules as they are, not as I would like them to be. But yes if our driver station was knocked off, I would be upset while realizing it is within the rules. If our robot was hitting the wall that hard in autonomous, I would have the my team change the code or disable the autonomous. Hitting the wall with the intention of damaging the field or driver station could be called egregious. The trouble there is knowing the intent otherwise it is within the rules. The only people that can change the rules is the GDC they can be reached here.
frcteams@usfirst.org
[tongue in cheek]If a team sits there while a robot drives into them full speed would be at least a little bit the referees fault for letting them on the field during a match.[/tongue in cheek]
As a side note, at the Georgia District Columbus event, teams where hitting the defenses hard enough to damage them. All where warned that after a warning on the field, they would be penalized.