Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

The team pushing the robot did not yell anything (especially not "robot") and the person in question backed out of a pit (was not directly in front of the robot).

1: A team pushing a robot should not be yelling anything. The risk to others is at the front of the robot, where the robot will be in a moment, not where the robot has already been. A vanguard or two should be walking ahead of the robot, calmly making sure people know that a robot is coming through.

2: Someone backing out of a pit without looking isn't likely to be magically protected from tripping backwards over something by a shout of ROBOT!, especially if he wasn't paying enough attention to his environment to hear a preceding warning, but I agree that it makes sense to call attention to the imminent collision.