TURO App Used to Rent the Trucks Used in the New Orleans, Las Vegas Terror Attacks Render Leads
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell | 10:01 PM on January 01, 2025
Unlike traditional car rental companies like Hertz, Alamo, or National, the Turo app offers peer-to-peer functionality in its vehicle rentals. So, instead of reserving a car through a particular company, you reserve a car from an individual.
The app has gained in prominence since its inception in 2010, and its CEO Andre Haddad explains on his LinkedIn profile why he finds the company concept attractive.
Turo immediately clicked for me — not only was it a marketplace, but it was a marketplace for cars. As a lifelong car enthusiast, I was thrilled to combine two of my greatest passions. Soon after signing on as CEO, I listed my 2006 Porsche 911 Carrera S on the site — it was car #279 on the marketplace and is still available today, the longest-standing currently active car on Turo.
This notion of unlocking the value of something that had been locked away in a home, a closet, a garage, electrified me all those years ago, and continues to electrify me today. Marketplaces attract innovators and entrepreneurial spirits, those driven, creative minds who look at the world and see possibility rather than monolithic, unbreakable boxes. And they attract consumers who value the one-of-a-kind over the mass-produced, the unique over the generic, experience over pure utility.
It seems two terrorists took advantage of the ease of this app to engineer the attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans.
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