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Re: Brainstorm: Improving the FRC bumper rules

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Originally Posted by Aren_Hill View Post
Thats the biggest reason my vote goes under "optional", if a team feels the robot won't take a beating, easy answer, make bumpers.
You're missing both aspects of my point.

A) As Vikesrock mentioned, most the teams that build robots that can't withstand the punishment are the same ones that don't build bumpers until Thursday at an event when they find out they need to. They're not going to build bumpers no matter how highly suggested they are, unless they required.

B) Bumpers aren't there solely to protect your robot, but protect other things FROM your robot.