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Turo CEO: Attackers had clean records, so background checks wouldn’t have stopped them


Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military

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. On Friday, Turo’s chief executive, Andre Haddad, said in a statement that he is “outraged” thinking about “how egregiously the two individuals who perpetrated these heinous crimes abused our platform.” TechCrunch has asked for more information about Turo’s background checks for renters and specifically how it is working with law enforcement and counterterrorism experts to prevent such cases from happening in the future.

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The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo