That's the common meaning of "real time" in embedded system land, correct. In web land, it tends to mean "if a user makes a change here, it auto updates on some

That's the common meaning of "real time" in embedded system land, correct. In web land, it tends to mean "if a user makes a change here, it auto updates on some other user's screen there without either user clicking 'save' or 'refresh' or something like that". Both are clear definitions in widespread use, and it's obvious that the Uber people mean the latter. Your comment is like complaining that people writing a cryptocurrency blog use the word "crypto" wrong because obviously it means cryptography.