[dhitchco]

Dave,
I fully agree with you....but, there is a lot of chatter elsewhere HERE in this forum about how the camera module is "enabled" all by itself and that the on-board system can be running in "stealth" mode before the autonomous mode starts. I think you've peeked at that thread as well.

There are teams that are advanced enough to be contemplating a field scan while the visual tetras are being placed; and then "memorizing" the actual two locations out of the eight possible placements. Namely, can the on-board system be "computing" and "hunting" the locations of the vision tetras before the start even if the DRIVE is disabled. Correct; no signal is "sent" fromt he driver, but the on-board controller can do it's own closed-loop process with the camera???

It goes back to the fundamental definition of "disabled". The entire robot sub-system power is not disabled.

Maybe the judges can put "hoods" over the vision tetras until the starting gun goes off.....