[Stephen Cross]

My brother looked up were the word vet came from. Looking on wikipedia he got:

1. As a noun:-
* An abbreviation for veterinarian or veterinary surgeon, that is, an animal doctor.
* An abbreviation for military veteran in the United States and Canada.
* A nickname for Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
* A variant of the Hebrew letter beth (ב).

2. As a verb:-

* to vet was originally a horse-racing term, referring to the requirement that a horse be checked for health and soundness by a veterinarian before being allowed to race. Thus, it has taken the general meaning "to check": "The attorney vetted the documents before using them to make his case"; "The presidential nominee vetted prospected vice-presidential candidates on his short list." See Vetting.

Looking at the vetting link gets:

Broadly, vetting is a process of examination and evaluation. Specifically, vetting often refers to performing a background check on someone before offering them employment. In addition, in intelligence gathering, assets are vetted to determine their usefulness.

Vetting is also a reference to software development. The process of vetting code refers to ensuring a build of software meets a set of very high level requirements before the build is passed to the quality assurance environment for further testing.

Maybe this means that we will have to do more with coding this year. Which could mean that they are changing the autonomous mode length, or making autonomous mode more complex.