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Re: Silly Programming screw ups (funny)

All through build season and our first regional, our software team was working on getting the camera to actually track a trailer. About mid way through our the camera started to track the opposing trailers.

In the beginning of the build season, our software team was jokingly adding code pretty much called "Skynet" where if the camera saw a trailer it would score on it. We were never able to get the camera to actually track, and Skynet was eventually forgotten in the code. Midway through our second regional in Minnesota, we get ready for our match, and I start driving. Well the robot decided to override me and started driving itself! The whole match... it tried to pick up balls and score on opposing trailers. It did rather well, it never scored, but it picked up balls and was rather close to a robot trailer. A team there gave us an award for best autonomous, since it drive the whole match autonomously. Worst moment in competition, but when you think about it, it was the best moment in competition.

Our programmers in the pit after the match were confused about how that happened, then they were like "OHHH!!! I know what's wrong.... we have Skynet inside that!!"

Luckily they removed it....
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