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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
This is lame. Really lame. 973 has built a bumpered west coast from 06-08 without a single failure. Why punish us and force us to awkwardly reinforce bumpers that don't need it?
We'll do it, I'm just annoyed.
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I'm not claiming to know if it's necessary. I'm just saying that if you're claiming that a 1" wide strip of 1/16" aluminum around the outside of your robot is part of you robot frame/structure.... Well it's silly. And anyone doing it KNOWS it's silly.
As for necessity... This is a completely new environment, and there's going to be a lot more collisions than in years past. Including your trailer colliding with your bumpers with all that nice leverage behind it. I think FIRST is erring on the side of safety and caution per usual.