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Originally Posted by Joe Ross

You mentioned cheerleaders lifting it, who's going to be driving it? 8" wheels direct driven from a toughbox is about 14 feet per second. It takes a lot of practice to be able to control a robot at that speed. That doesn't seem wise for a demo robot that is either being driven by inexperienced drivers or driven around people.

Well the cheering team would be driving it. So most likely cheerleaders. We're planning on adding gearshifting in the code. So pretty much, 1st gear is 30% motor power, 2nd is 70% power, and 3rd is 100% power. We've done this in the past in competition. and the lower gears are extremely easy to control. The speed is mainly for getting the robot around the field in a timely fashion. Any kind of remot controlled device is going to take time to get used to, so they would hopefully practice.