[Donut]

Using the vision system successfully for autonomous is not impossible, obvious by the fact that teams did get it working. The problem is usually testing and debug time. Our team had a fully working autonomous in the 2006 season that scored balls in the high goal, yet in 2007 we weren't able to score due to missing test time. The code was better than the previous year's, and sections of it worked, but actually getting it all connected to work never happened (at the AZ regional this past year we discovered, after all our practice time was up, that our camera had been off the whole time, due to being too rushed to check for that problem).

I'm interested in seeing what exactly is going to be done in autonomous mode that would require an extra processor just to do it.