Drivers accidentally enabling Auto/Practice mode

[RyanShoff]

What would everyone think about changing the driver station to make it harder to enable Autonomous or Practice mode?

Our team had a least two incidents last year where the driver, while tethered, intended to enable Teleop mode and accidentally enabled Autonomous.

It would be easy to make the radio button default to Teleop after every disable. Or even better make Autonomous mode a completely different tab and button.

Last year we mitigated the risk by keeping the robot in the pits on a stand that kept the wheels off the ground and kept the shooter locked out so it wouldn't fire.

One of the incidents happened on the practice field. A typical cycle on the practice field was run Auto, have someone retrieve ball, run Teleop to drive back to starting line, load ball, maybe change a setting, and repeat.

If the driver forgot to switch from Auto to Teleop and enabled, the result is a second autonomous run starting when no one on the field is expecting it. This scenario could be avoided with a simple change to the driver station.