Timid Drivers

[FrankJ]

Broken robots do not win matches.

Colin Chapman (founder of Lotus for you children) felt that a race that did not fall apart at the finish line was overbuilt.

Keith Code (champion motorcycle racer) teaches that you only have so much attention span. So the more you can relegate to reflexes or reaction by practice the more you can spend your limited attention to the unexpected.

Some people will make better drivers than others. Very few natural drivers though. Practice & pre-planning will teach you how much you can push your robot.