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Originally Posted by dhitchco
Hi mechanicalbrain,
Personally, I would like to see this clarified to NOT allow any sort of camera at all DURING any official match, even if it's being transmitted to a DVR in the stands for training. Use during the build season is fine, just not during matches. As an example, what if a driver was to wear "stealth" video sunglasses that DID capture & show the video that was "meant" to go to the stands....Or what if someone in the stands was watching the on-board video and then yelling instructions to the drivers.....
Not fair nor in the spirit of FIRST......My opinion alone.......
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Well I would be shocked to no end to see any team so grossly violate the rules but if a team is going to go such extremes to cheat nothing would stop them from hiding a camera their robot rule or no rule. Camera's have been used before, mostly for TV stations. If a team did violate the rules as you mentioned it would be quite obvious (even the best glasses Ive seen are obvious). The point is if a team is willing to go to such lengths to cheat then why would putting down rules like that stop them? Again I have trouble imagining another team doing something like that. Anything is a possibility and I seem to remember hearing things but mostly that was teams being confused about the rules.