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Re: Should a programmer be a driver too?
To add to the general agreement above, one thing is when the robot gets into programming, the programmers have to drive it to test it. While we have driver practice time -- we programmers do share! -- when it gets into the wee hours and that autonomous sequence has to be just so, it helps to have someone just to reset the robot. That person, usually another programmer, gets very good driving backwards!
And while he may deny it, our lead programmer has programmed in "job security" by having all the joystick controls doing things that no adult could follow, or at least I couldn't. We still have a driver test on who is the best.
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