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Those `rare edge cases` you're marginalizing represent real people's lives. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article41364675.html I gotta say, It's a struggle for me to read these threads and see people who share your callous comfort with the status quo.
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…
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.