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Originally Posted by ahecht
If you have a practice robot, are you allowed to tweak that code to give your drivers an accurate training experience?
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Nope. Software development is software development. We can draw the line on what constitutes development wherever we want (i.e., whether or not algorithm design, flow charting, pseudo-code, or punch lists constitute software development), but wherever that line is drawn, downloading new code is on the wrong side.
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Originally Posted by ShadowKnight
The problem becomes even more confusing with FIRST's overt encouragement of practice robots.
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I don't think the recent ruling that R14 doesn't prohibit practice robots is anywhere near an "overt encouragement". Rule R14 was clearly written (ok, maybe "clearly" is a stretch) to discourage them, but did not go to the point of forbidding them.
Why a rule would be written like that is beyond me. Any rule writers wanna help out here?