[EricH]

Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

One idea I've been toying with is the ability for the drivers can voluntarily give up control to their autonomous routines. Perhaps we have something similar to the pressure switches used for the human players back in the days of the tetras?

When operating under optional autonomous, goals/points/etc are worth more. Or, points could be accumulated for the number of seconds running in voluntary autonomous.

This allows the advanced teams to place a greater value on their autonomous routines, without forcing the younger teams to simply wait for autonomous mode to end.

This has been legal (and possible) for years. In fact, teams doing it was what triggered the adoption of an auto mode, I think. Now, determining when a robot is running in automode if it's self-triggered--that's the hard part. If you can do it, then you might have something there...