Using a separate thread for driving motors?

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by Jefferson

But I still don't think that's the case. I don't believe separate threads outside the main robot thread can keep the robot alive if the main thread has died.

Yes, your right. I'm more used to working with Java, where this is not the case, but in C++ (which I just realized the OP was using), exiting the main thread does cause all other threads to terminate.