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Re:More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. backgrou... by tptacek on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:14PM (#14046556)
They are in fact rare cases, and the cases where those people are denied the desired opportunity to drive for Uber are even rarer. More people are raped --- set aside sexually assaulted --- in taxi cabs every year than are denied this opportunity.

It is obviously a real problem that people are placed on sex offender registries for peeing in bushed. But the commenter above isn't required to address every real problem in pointing out that there's a good public policy reason to avoid having people convicted of real sexual assault offenses driving cabs.

Re:More than 8,000 ride-share drivers flunked Mass. backgrou... by bingomad123 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:41PM (#14061809)
I think it is upto the ridesharing company to set the standards and not an arbitrary bureaucrat. In fact I believe people like you and me might be able to invent better methods of detecting people of dubious characters and can deny them job.