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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
The blue team wasn't forced to operate their robot unsafely. They could have stopped it and waited for the hazard to pass, but instead chose to operate their robot despite not being able to see it. <S01> speaks of penalties for "uncontrolled motion that cannot be stopped by the drivers" as an example of unsafe operation; if the drivers could have stopped it, and it was under partial control (inputs were functioning, but drivers couldn't react to the robot's behaviour), it doesn't seem like a plausible extrapolation of the example.
While simply stopping and waiting might negatively impact the blue team's opportunity to play the game, <S01> is a safety rule, not a gameplay rule.
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That's specious reasoning at best. That's like saying that a person driving down a 2 lane highway at night is perfectly within their right to leave their super extra blindness inducing high beams on when passing another car because, hey, the other car can always pull to the side of the road and stop driving. It's certainly true, but it misses the point entirely that the rude driver is causing the problem in the first place and shouldn't be depending on the other driver to make up for his lack of caution. Do you commonly weld in the middle of a busy shop and expect everyone else to notice this fact and avert their eyes, or do you put up weld screens in a corner of the shop and let everyone know what you're doing? Honestly, if you think safety is everyone's responsibility but your own.... well I wouldn't want to work around you.