Damping the joystick at 1

Run your joystick commands through a rate-limit filter.

Do the LabVIEW equivalent of this:

change = joystick - limitedJoystick;
if (change>limit) change = limit;
else (if change<-limit) change = -limit;
limitedJoystick += change;

limit is the amount of change you will allow every iteration

limitedJoystick is the rate-limited joystick value you use to control your motors.
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