Safety in Game Design

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

One easy way to avoid unsafe robot design is to eliminate critical resource scarcity.

Scarce resources can lead to crazy R&D into potentially unsafe mechanisms (see: 2015 Can Races, 2011 Minibot Races, etc.)

-Mike

Agreed. There are also some standard practices in FRC robot design that are somewhat questionable. I'm quite surprised by the general acceptance of spinning wheel shooters without guarding or consideration for the RPM rating of the wheels. Of course, writing rules and inspecting for safely designed spinning wheel shooters would probably be largely ineffective.