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The article entitled “How Uber Engineering Increases Safe Driving with Telematics” by Beinstein and Sumers (2016) provides insig ht into Uber’s utilization of telematics data to improve road safety and eradicate unsafe driving habits. Under the company’s mobile architecture, Global Positioning System (GPS) information from each trip is processed under Trip Services. This is combined with the information gathered via Uber’s Vehicle Movement Processor (VMP), which analyses key indicators including harsh braking and sudden acceleration, which will complement and enhance the credibility of the telematics data obtained from the drivers. Combining the information from Uber’s VMP, the resultant data will subsequently be processed under Apache’s distributed streaming platform, Kafka, before they are committed to long-term storage under the HADOOP Distributed File System (HDFS). Beinstein and Sumers (2016) also highlighted Uber’s use of various computational softwares, including Apa...