Timid Drivers

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by wireties

Our drivers have a motto -"Drive it like you stole it!". It makes for a long day fixing the robot after most matches but they seem to have a lot of fun!

They used to tell me that, then once they realized I did drive it like I stole it, they changed to "If you lose the match and the robot doesn't come back broken, you didn't drive hard enough." This year, people have started saying "Drive it like Joey."

I do think me not knowing much about the mechanical portion of the robot allowed me to push it to the limit. I knew that if I did anything stupid we had a great group of people that would be able to fix it, although our breakaway robot had a tendency of breaking the field before it would break. That drive team worked pretty well, as I was the lead programmer, and the other driver was one of our head mechanical guys. If anything went wrong during the match we usually had a pretty good idea of what it was.