One or Two Drivers??

[dirtbikerxz]

Originally Posted by jijiglobe

I've found in my experience that a little faith in your drive team partner can go a long way. Our team uses a few keywords to communicate. "Acquire" means we're going to go intake that ball. "Raise" means raise the arm. "Fire" means... fire.

I've found that most of the time I can just rely on my partner to do the right thing "on the spot" so long as we communicate about what our goals are. If we're stuck on the moat, for instance, and I we need to swing our arm in such a way that it shifts our CoG forward, a simple "we're stuck" will suffice, though usually I don't have to say anything in the first place.

The notion that making snap judgments on the spot is impossible with two drivers is a fallacy. (See 330 righting themselves on Einstein if you don't believe me)

Let me give some context for our situation. SO we are a small team. 13 students, but only 3-4 that show up on a constant basis. Every build season we barely finish the bot in time for bag day (in the case of last year, not even finish, and have to finish the thursday of our first regional. We don't have time to actually practice on the bot before our first regional, and definetly don't have a practice bot. That in addition to the fact that I'm the only person on the team (not bragging here, just facts) that has the required skills to be a driver, makes it simply not possible to have a 2 drivers that communicate flawlessly. Don't get me wrong. I love my team members, and we know exactly how each one of us thinks, and i trust them 100 percent (especially us 4 that show up constantly), but 2 drivers is just not in the question