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Originally Posted by UlTiMaTeP
This is all so true. When you are driving behind a lexan wall you have very little depth perception and its very had to cap on the opposite side of the field. It causes drivers to sometimes to too far and go over the wall of the drivers station. I believe FIRST should respond to this. I think they never thought robots would be quite so high and tall with large arms. In the Florida regional one team had a boom so long they hit the speakers and almost took out everyone doing scoring and video. I believe FIRST should respond and put a cover over the top of the drivers station. This would eliminate the problem of accidentally dropping tetras onto the drivers. Nothing can be done for human players. No real protection can be gained for them. FIRST put in penaltys to protect human players in the loading zone. But that does not mean they are safe. This is one or the most dangerous games for drivers and HP's. FIRST I am sure will take this into account in future years with game designs.
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*sigh* I hoped that people had forgotten about that incident.
Since I never really had the chance to do this in the first place, I'd like to formally apologize for what happened during that round with our arm while I was driving. The arm accidently got stuck, and we couldn't retract it using our controls or manually on the field (this was a practice round). We never did touch the speakers, but the arm was hovering over the judges and scoring. Being the first round that I had actually driven in the arena before, and being a little nervous of the arm at the same time, I forgot the E-Stop button to my left. The arm length was actually a little over 13 feet, but the tall UCF speakers were very low (we nearly hit them for real on the way out trying to leave the field). Again, I'm very sorry about what happened, and I hope that it doesn't leave a bad mark on my team from that incident.