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Re: VEX Radio Range & Loss of Radio Fail Safe?

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
You can test pretty easily yourself by just shutting off your transmitter while you're driving.

When you're driving via RC and radio communication is lost the PWMs do get set to 127.
You'd have to purposely switch over to autonomous if you really wanted to keep driving.

I'd love to test myself, except I don't have one to test.

Asking questions, then purchasing.

So sounds like there is a build in fail safe?
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