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Re: Spare parts and duplicate robots

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Originally Posted by dlavery
I am going to answer "Yes" to each of these. Or to be more accurate, I would say "Sure, why not?"
...NASCAR drivers swap parts between different cars, and different teammates...
I'm a big racing fan. In racing, there are two paradigms:

1) NASCAR, where all of the cars are equal and for the most part the same car (NASCAR keeps moving toward it's "common template" approach).

and

2) Formula One, where each team MUST develop and build its own car from scratch. Collaboration between teams is strictly forbidden.

To the "sure, why not?" question, you should ask this to the leaders of Formula One or any Formula One fan and you'll get the same answer: because it will ruin the sport.

Personally, I really don't like NASCAR. I love the engineering aspect of Formula One. I don't ever want to see FIRST become a bunch of people driving the same robot around the field. Every collaboration makes me think that FIRST is moving one step away from F1 and one step closer to NASCAR. FIRST turning into NASCAR is one of my biggest fears.

Anyway, I really don't like the idea of duplicate robots cometing in the competition for the above reasons. That being said, I'll get back on topic: My answer to all of Ken's questions is "No". I don't want to see teams pre-planning their spare parts so the collaborators have another advantage over the non-collaborators.
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