Second driver?

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Originally Posted by jamie_1930

...In almost everygame you don't always need a second driver....

You almost always need a second driver. Looking back at past control panels as early as 2001, there would be no way for there to be a single driver. Think of 2005 or 2007. How could someone driving the robot with two joysticks possibly have the ability to call up macro positions or sequences? It is one thing to make the driver handle the suck roller, but quite another to have them handle the whole robot. The only exceptions I see are... none, for our robots.

As for the topic of this thread, the Killer Bees generally have the driver drive and the operator handle everything else. The driver has two joysticks for drive, and buttons for gear shifting and sometimes chassis inversion. The operator always has a custom control box and sometimes a joystick, handling everything else. The best way to make the drivers happy is to make their job easy using automation. That way anyone can drive the robot with little practice, and the practice the comp team gets allows them to get really good at driving.