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Re: Can the Pilot do anything during autonomous?

I honestly dont' get the ambiguity here. Of course they can. This is obvious because otherwise scoring gears in autonomous would be impossible, but the wording of the rules supports that too.

The DRIVE TEAM is not prohibited from "interacting" in a general, broad sense. The full rule text is "ROBOTS operate without any DRIVE TEAM control or input". The PILOT is not operating the ROBOT, obviously. They are neither controlling nor inputting commands to the robot. Control or input

H08 doesn't come into play at all either, because the game pieces in question are in the field of play. They are not in the ALLIANCE STATION.

I actually can't find the word "Interacting" in the rules anywhere in this context. That isn't the wording of the rule. The rule is "ROBOT operates ... control or input". This isn't ambiguous. There's nothing to see here.

The PILOT is not prohibited from doing anything in autonomous excluding what they are prohibited from doing the entire match and using the reserve gear.
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