TeleopPeriodic doesn't seem to iterate fast enough to smoothly run motors

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Tominator368

Could you explain this further? I'm quite sure motors will not keep their most recent value, at least, for instance, if I were to simply call a set() function in robotInit() so that it was only set once; the motor wouldn't run infinitely in this scenario.

Actually, the motor does keep the same value until your code changes it to something else.

The motor will however stop if there is a motor safety engaged. The motor safety times out if the motor isn't continuously set, because it assumes the code is locked up after ~.1 second or whatever time you set the motor exception to, and cuts off the PWM to prevent a runaway motor.
If your code disabled the motor safety then the motor would suddenly burst back to life at whatever speed was set however long ago.
The motor safety is optional, but is probably engaged by default.