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Uber is beginning to track the locations of riders up to five minutes after a ride has ended:
As promised, Uber is now tracking you even when your ride is over. The ride-hailing service said the surveillance—even when riders close the app—will improve its service.
The company now tracks customers from when they request a ride until five minutes after the ride has ended. According to Uber, the move will help drivers locate riders without having to call them, and it will also allow Uber to analyze whether people are being dropped off and picked up properly—like on the correct side of the street.
"We do this to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service, and to enhance safety," Uber said.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday December 05 2016, @05:03PM
I just walked over to the curb to check it. GPS put me on the correct side of the street. Google Maps directions are also specific about which side of the street you are supposed to be on.
Phones can utilize multiple variants of positioning satellite. GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo are all active or will be soon. There are two more I didn't even know about being launched by Japan [wikipedia.org] and India [wikipedia.org]. GLONASS is supposed to be more accurate than civilian GPS. A quick search found that the Samsung Galaxy S4 supports GLONASS, and that phone is over three and a half years old. Radio/Wi-Fi signals can also be used to improve accuracy. I believe Android/GMaps even asks whether you want to turn on Wi-Fi to improve positioning.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @06:19PM
Worse than that, Android uses wifi networks to further narrow your location unless you disable it... and continue to decline enabling it every fucking time you turn on your navigation app.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:43AM
Android can actually use wifi signals only - I've used this a couple times when weather made GPS impossible.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday December 05 2016, @11:07PM
Off topic, but the reason GLONASS is being included everywhere because Russia has a 25% tariff on any GPS device not including GLONASS. Including vehicles.