Human Player Safety

[Chris Hibner]

There is a thread going on about having to stand behind the controls by 3 feet during the autonomous period and that it might be a safety concern.

Has anyone thought about human player safety problems? We've been doing human player practices recently and noticed that 10 seconds is not enough time to do much of anything. Many of the things we tried to do with the boxes resulted in the human players running at full speed to get back to the sensor pad to get there within one second of losing the autonomous time.

Now, I'm sure you can say, "then just don't do anything with the boxes other than put them right next to the HP starting position". But that's not very realistic for the competition. I can really forsee at least one accident this year in which a human player is rushing back to the sensor pad and trips and falls (either over their own two feet or on the railing near the gate) and either breaks a bone or gets a head injury.

Has anyone else noticed the need to have the human player rush like crazy?

-Chris