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Originally Posted by glennword
What is Freedom Drive? I can't find any other mention of it on chief, and my team was thinking about naming our swerve that. But we don't want to steal 971's thunder.
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That is the name that our kids decided upon for this year's drive so we would have something to tell the pit scouts when they came by. I don't think it was ever posted on CD (besides maybe our technical document), but if you stopped by our pits and asked what kind of drive we had, you probably got told a Freedom Drive.
A Freedom Drive is a close cousin of the west coast drive. It is characterized by a 6 wheel drive, an octagonal frame perimeter, dropped middle wheel, wide traction wheels in the middle, and narrow traction wheels at the ends. The preferred implementation includes a sheet metal frame, dead axles, and slippery fabric bumpers.
Developing new "classes" of super-competition would totally defeat the concepts of info-sharing, partnerships, alliances, etc and create an elitist society within FIRST.
- dhitchco [more] 
06-10-2014, 14:40
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