Holding Down Buttons on the Remote

[RyanW]

Well, it looks like our autonomous code is good enough that we don't need to worry too much about it...We tested at the Play Date yesterday and were consistently getting at least 2 lines (when we weren't going backwards and getting penalties, that is...)

Currently we do have driving correction type stuff, but it's now on the order of "Override autonomous and move this way for 1 second", which should interfere less than holding the button down...

I agree that holding the button down is not particularly nice to other teams. The hope was that we wouldn't have to do it much, and we certainly wouldn't be using held-down buttons to drive the robot, and so we weren't really thinking about interference issues... However, we have moved away from that scheme, and I do think it's better overall.

Yesterday at the Play Date I saw one team driving by IR command - there are much easier ways to do it if you want to drive that way that don't involve holding buttons down. So after however much complaining I've been doing, I do support GDC's decision on this issue...