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Originally Posted by David Brinza
From Dave Flowerday's post, he timed matches in-person at the Midwest Regional, confirming his observations from the Milwaukee webcast. From the perspective of fairness, if all the matches run the same duration, no advantage is gained or lost* by any teams.
Maybe FIRST will discover a mini-black hole in the FMS that dilates time and create other problems with the field? 
*Unless, of course, you don't trust your drivers and have automatic timing features in your code that effectively ends your match earlier than the rest of the field. (Sorry, Joe!) |
First, putting the brake on is not "ending the match early." The code I want to implement will allow the winch to go UP but not DOWN during the last 3 seconds of a match.
Second, I trust my drivers. BUT if there is a way that I can unload them from having to think about details during a match, I'm going to do it, especially given that we have not had enough quality time with the robot to practice these kind of things.
From years of experience, I can tell you that drivers get overloaded pretty easily. There is a LOT going on out there on the field. On something as critical as this, I think an auto engage is a good idea.
Joe J.