  We consider a finite number of particles characterised by their positions and
velocities. At random times a randomly chosen particle, the follower, adopts
the velocity of another particle, the leader. The follower chooses its leader
according to the proximity rank of the latter with respect to the former. We
study the limit of a system size going to infinity and, under the assumption of
propagation of chaos, show that the limit equation is akin to the Boltzmann
equation. However, it exhibits a spatial non-locality instead of the classical
non-locality in velocity space. This result relies on the approximation
properties of Bernstein polynomials.
