The fact that we sometimes [set the state in the bash script of a submission](https://github.com/duckietown/duckietown-lx-recipes/blob/fa953e6e25a92dcf5c30374aed42ad7d7dfbadbe/state-estimation/launchers/submission.sh#L17) and also [set the initial state when the FSM initializes](https://github.com/duckietown/dt-core/blob/7f73c62c0942653b8971546198358144742cd2fe/packages/fsm/src/fsm_node.py#L33) causes a race condition on the intitial state
The fact that we sometimes set the state in the bash script of a submission
and also set the initial state when the FSM initializes causes a race condition on the intitial state