Ruling Consistancy in Houston

[Joe Menassa]

Tell me one thing before I say anything. Did you or did you not open your hood?

I was not back there but I believe that the hood was just up the entire time. As 126 drove onto the hood it was pushed down and it would return out when 126 was off.

I agree that it does seem as though we were using the pneumatic hood to flip them but the fact is that that not only can the hood not lift a battery but not even a bin. We tried catapulting bins originally but it never worked because the pistion is poorly placed and there is not enough pressure.

I think one way to slove this problem with refs is to have them be part of the inspection process. If the refs knew more about the robots then that would help them make more accurate calls. After the ref told us we were using our hood to flip them he would not even listen to us when we tried to explain that its not possible.

and on those 11 brutal flips... atleast 9 of them have to have been the flipped robots fault.. when you see a wedge at the top of the ramp..don't drive up it becuase you will fall on your own.