DRIVER SELECTION....

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Posted by Joe Ross at 2/2/2001 4:08 AM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach Bot, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA/JPL , J&F Machine, and Raytheon.


In Reply to: being "friends" with the drivers...
Posted by Anton Abaya on 2/2/2001 3:36 AM EST:



If your drivers really were good, then they should be able to come out on top. BUT, if it is close (and your drivers did well lasy year) then they should probably continue being the drivers. It is very hard to top a year's experience driving (except with more years experience ;-) ).

:"i have a say in things because i was a driver..."

while the attitude behind this comment conveys that the driver has an attitude, you should definetly listen to your drivers. They are the only ones who know how the robot is acting. The engineers and everyone else only know how the robot is supposed to act.

There is give-and-take both ways, but the experience that drivers bring should never be discounted.

PS. don't you people on the east coast get any sleep? ;-) or is college a coast-to-coast phenomenon :-P