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Re: Take an exit with dignity
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Originally Posted by Pat Roche View Post
One thing that really bugs me about this not exiting out of autonomous issue is that it is an issue that has occurred to more than one team in more than one year (meaning multiple programmers/program variations). I witnessed the incident in Annapolis last year. Two matches in a row the robot never exited autonomous mode and driver control was never established. 134's robot last year was programmed in Labview.
It's a known issue and 100% error of the team's programmer. Java and C++ code waits for the autonomous code to finish execution even when the FMS switches to teleop. The LabVIEW error is a little tougher to explain but it is user error.

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Also to be noted: all three of these instances occurred in the blue center driver station.
coincidence
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