[Rob Colatutto]

My team had an idea for a 3 speed transmission that we prototyped back in fall 2002. Our main reason we wanted it was so that if there were very heavy objects in the game again such as in 2002, you'd be able to get to them very fast, start pushing them in low, and then once they got moving well you could switch up to medium and push them a little faster. The shifting mechanism was moved back and forth with a globe motor, we just couldn't think up a very good way of indexing it so the robot would know where it was during the match. Then when the 2003 game came out we put the idea on hold since it wasn't needed at all.