Venturing a guess -- there's either some X% accuracy standard required by the government for who-knows-what reason, or it's for red light cameras and ticketing systems.

"Ironically, the biggest concern with red-light camera systems is that they are so precise. They measure a driver’s speed and exact location within a fraction of a second — but do not leave any wiggle room for the errors of traffic signals such as inconsistent yellow light times"[0]

If there's not an accuracy threshold for safety reasons, there's gotta be one when traffic ticketing revenue is on the line (also I guess determining fault at accidents, vehicular manslaughter cases, etc.)

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/06/06/red-light-cameras-how...

I don't actually know, but my guess is time drift with respect to other lights.

resume-driven development?

everything is revenue driven development

he said resume, i.e. working with tech you want to use at your next gig not the tech you need at this gig.

could have sworn i read that right ... ah well

still, revenue driven development actually makes sense as a thing too ...