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Originally Posted by Meandmyself
I would love to see an autonomous mode sometime in the middle of a match, or at the end. It would be at some set time, not activated randomly, for example the last 15 seconds would be autonomous. If the points for autonomous tasks were high enough, few teams would elect not to have autonomous.
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If the autonomous mode was the last 15 seconds, teams might not be willing to not have one even if the points weren't that high. Think about it: the end of the match is determined with no driver control at all. It's like a basketball coach backing off and not coaching for the last 30 seconds of a tight game. If FIRST went with this format, they would probably have even more over stressed drive teams on their hands than they have now. Vision would be really important in a format like this. The drivers would otherwise have to be extremely careful to place the robot in exactly the right spot so the autonomous mode works correctly. Of course, having 6 robots(assuming FIRST keeps the 3v3 format) all running autonomously with vision systems at the same time might cause some damage to a few bots...But I do think having the autonomous mode somewhere other than the beginning would be cool.