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Re: FRC Robots Aren't Real Robots?

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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0 View Post
Forgive me if you've heard me say this before, but I think FIRST needs to make a game where there's a huge penalty for not moving at all during autonomous. The number of teams that do nothing in autonomous every year is ridiculous.

As an example rule, let's say that driver control doesn't begin until you leave the starting zone of the field. You can either make your robot drive a few feet or hope that your teammates come to push you out of the zone.

There's no team where turning on motors for a few seconds is out of reach. If they can't it's because they've prioritized something else.
I think it's a good idea but at the same time I disagree. There have been matches where they start the match without us, even when we were banging on the glass, so we didn't get a chance to do auto since we didn't have time to select one, I'm notrying even sure if we had codecided loaded from the Rio, like I don't know if it was reading it. If they waited until everybody was ready like they are suppose to, it may work, but things can mess us and the auto on a robot may not start.
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