Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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One of the issues that I've seen is that the operator on it (we were in the practice field at the time) mistakenly left the DS with autonomous selected. The driver enabled the robot and it took off. Had we been in the pits, it would been on the blocks and wouldn't have actually gone anywhere. Do we double-check that the DS is in the intended mode ? Yes. Will someone make a mistake - it's still a possibility.

We make checklists for a lot of things that we do - but for some reason, the majority of the teenagers/young-adults despises checklists; it takes them a year and a half to get warmed up to the idea. So, we have checklists, and there are angry eyes every time that I make them use it.

Having said that, if we are doing anything other than running the drive wheels while we are in the pit, we let our neighbors know so that they know to be ready if we start yelling.