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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Red card for "inappropriate use of the E-stop"? Wow, that will be fun to argue with refs about. There's a software problem and it can't drive, so we e-stop, but it's not obvious, so we get a red card?
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I'm going to have to echo this thought. It was my understanding that if you had no control of your robot it was the responsible thing to do by pressing the e-stop in the event that the robot decides to move on its own. After attending many a FIRST event I know for a fact that sometimes a bot will run its auto mode at an unknown time due to a field error. Therefore wouldn't it make sense that if your bot is unresponsive to driver control that you hit the e-stop as a
safety precaution?