Overview

• Two separate New Year’s Day incidents involved vehicles rented through Turo: a deadly crowd attack in New Orleans and a Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas.
• The New Orleans attacker killed 14 people using a Ford F-150 Lightning, while the Las Vegas incident involved a Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel, resulting in the driver’s suicide.
• Both perpetrators were U.S. military veterans with valid driver’s licenses and clean criminal records, according to Turo's CEO.
• Turo emphasized its robust screening process, which includes a proprietary risk score based on over 50 data points, but acknowledged the difficulty in preventing such incidents.
• The company is cooperating with law enforcement and consulting counterterrorism experts to improve safety measures and prevent future misuse of its platform.