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Originally posted by KenWittlief
Submarines!
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Ohhh, here it goes.
Now, seriously, I don't think they will lengthen the autonomous time for a few reasons. Last year, about the last half the autonomous time did not contain movement of anything in the majority of most matches. The other reason is that for robots that do have programs which take advantage of the whole 15 seconds, they sometimes would get stuck against something early on and be stalling motors for the remainder of the time; very bad for the motors and electronics and it kills your battery too. For teams that don't stall out, they spin the tires for a long period of time, still bad for the tires anyway.
So, I think the autonomous mode will remian at 15 seconds. One part of FIRST is not having enough time to do everything you want; e.g. the 6 week build.
I also think that more points will be scored for tasked performed in autonomous mode than in user mode.
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