Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to commit acts of violence earlier this week.
First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning crashed into a crowd of people, killing at least 15. Then, an active duty Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and allegedly blew it up. The driver died of suicide.
On Friday, Turo chief executive Andre Haddad said in a statement that he was “outraged” considering “how egregiously the two individuals who committed these horrific crimes abused our platform.”
Haddad noted that Turo is consulting with national security and counterterrorism experts “to learn more about how we can get even better and play our part to help prevent something like this from happening again.” such”.
TechCrunch has requested more information about Turo’s background checks on tenants, and specifically how it’s working with law enforcement and counterterrorism experts to prevent such cases from happening in the future.
