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Originally Posted by EricH
At one of 330's demos, we allowed team related people to drive. ... and there was a ditch to go through ... My mom drove for a few minutes with me on the arm, then we switched, but I was always within easy grab of the disable switch.
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Our 2005 robot is VERY easy to drive; I was able to drive it over that little gutter once I figured out the technique. Not like the year our mentors were crashing the robot into folding tables at our sponsor dinner...
In my opinion, our scariest demo this year:
The senior pastor of our church wanted us to demo our Championship robot at all four weekend services. The carpeted platform in our church auditorium is about as high as a tabletop, and at the very front of it is a drop off with no railings, much like a theatrical stage. I suggested that the members of the team who were not driving the robot should sit in the front row so that, if anything went wrong, we would be the ones it landed on. The seating didn't actually work out that way.
But, between our excellent drivers and our steady robot, there were no "incidents." And we do not allow novices to drive in this kind of demo.