Despite what IFI says, you can configure autonomous from OI...

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

great idea - students have a difficult time remembering to set auton switches while they are planting the bot on the field

one important thing - if you are going to use the competition_mode flag to determine when you are disabled, the documentation from IFI is WRONG!!

competition_mode = 0 when the bot is enabled

competition_mode = 1 when the bot is disabled

( I sat up half the night at cleveland staring at my code trying to figure out why it wasnt working right. ^ turned out to be the reason).

If you have avaliable I/O on the OI (I love that line)...

Last year we set autonomous mode at the operator interface. The students pressed a "SET" button on the interface that would tell the robot to store the autonmous selection.
One thing I would change: throw some LEDs that blink rapidly if the autonomous program is not set. Even cooler: figure a way to add an audible alarm.