Autonomous end game

[MGoelz]

I'm not sure. It depends on how that would be worked out. Would your robot, using this year's game as an example, be in the middle of scoring, then all of a sudden, it would stop and autonomous would take over? Would there still be autonomous at the beginning? Also, would the human operators have to step back? There would be some serious penalties if they didn't. It would throw the whole game. Interesting...I can't decide.

[Chris Fultz]

i vote YES.

I saw our programming team take a 5 minute break once, so i know that need more to do.

[Dan_Karol]

Personally I like the idea. I also think it would be cool if the beginning game auto mode was worth less then the end game. i. e. the 2004 or 2007 auto mode at the beginning with the Decisiveness of the 2006 auto mode at the end.

[Vogel648]

Too many variables to consider at the end of the game, based on where you are what direction you are pointed etc, etc, it could be done, but I'm just saying that if it was so decisive you would see the drivers for so many teams trying to set their robot up so that their robot worked autonomously the best for the last 20 seconds of manned periods, and there would be those without autonomous programming who would just park themselves in the percieved way of the opponent's autonomous mode.

Not that it couldn't be done, but I think it would detract a lot and not be as interesting, and make autonomous 10 times harder, and looking at the autonomous from this year, it looks like we could really use that.