Single Drivers

Hello. My team is running out of drivers and that is why I am asking this question. Could my single student driver operate the robot for 30 seconds and just before placing the controller on the ground press a pre programmed button which runs an autonomous program for 30 seconds and allow the robot finish the round on its own? Is this legal?

Hi ipanavigator,

I’m moving your question to the “Official VIQC Highrise Q&A” sub-forum so it can get the proper attention. To clarify for all of our forum users, all VEX IQ Challenge game/rules specific questions should be asked there. Thanks, and have a great season.

-Rich

Sorry, I’m not sure I understand what you been by “running out of drivers”. Could you please explain?

One of the biggest goals of the VEX IQ Challenge is to teach students about teamwork, hence the rules being designed to encourage driving partnerships. Each team is required to have two Drivers during a match. If you team does not have two Drivers, you may borrow a driver from you Alliance Partner team. However, there is no rule on how much driving each Driver must do during their allotted time period. Thus if the first Driver wants to drive for :30 and then hit a button to activate programming before passing the controller to the second Driver, this is acceptable.

In the spirit of inclusiveness we hope teams utilize the two driver rule as a way to foster teamwork and cooperation, giving multiple team members a chance to drive the robot.