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by danjoc 3268 days ago
Uber tracks you every 30 seconds. They struggle with it at that scale.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/9/28/how-uber-manages-a...

10 times a second made me laugh out loud.

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The car transmits 10 times a second to assist other vehicles, signals or traffic management systems.

The notion that big brother is going to track you in tenth if a second increments is not a thing.

Unnecessary with radar, lidar, etc.

What's the point? Oh, to invade privacy at some future date.