[thehotsauceman]

As a driver I love swerve. Once you can wrap your mind around driving it it feels so natural and simply fun to drive. Swerve also comes with the benefit of the fact that it doesn't matter what way you're oriented for where you're driving. This helps on offense and defense both. Offense wise, you can get to where you want to go in one fluid motion, even with defense being played on you. Swerve also allows you to shake defense rather easily as you aren't limited to forward and backwards because you also have side to side movement at your disposal. Defense wise, it is outstanding. Swerve's mobility allows it to be an amazing defense drive train as you can very easily stay in the way of the attacker (reference 16 on 2012 Einstein). Swerve has many benefits if you can build and program it right.

That being sad swerve is not for everyone. It has its limitations as does everything else. Tank drive beats it in certain areas and it kind of comes down how you want to play the game in my opinion. It's fairly simple to mechanically build but programming is a beast. It also takes a while to execute a swerve (We've been doing swerve since the early 2000's and are still improving our design). If you plan on doing swerve drive I would suggest getting advice from swerve teams as well as being very devoted to the project and continuing to improve on each design.