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Originally Posted by Aren_Hill
I still havent found what was wrong with allowing teams to use bumpers if they wanted too, all it is is another design tradeoff.
Save weight on a weaker frame and use bumpers?
Beef up the frame a bit to take the hits in exchange for more frame perimeter freedom
Its like the GDC directly saying "we dont trust your structual skills, so put these on"
I'll take responsibility for keeping my own robot alive thank you very much.
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Well, part of it is that bumpers protect both teams. In (a practice match) 2007, a team without bumpers drove onto our bumpers and broke our radio. I don't think this would have happend if they had bumpers. This may have been a freak thing, but their lack of bumper hurt our robot. So, you may take responsibility for protecting your robot, but you also have to take responsibility for protection the other teams that did choose to have bumpers (this includes make sure they don't get ripped).
I've been in FIRST since 2006 and each of our robots have been alteast 75% of the peraminter have been covered in bumpers. So, I don't know what it was like not having bumpers. What are the advantages to not having bumpers?