Six years ago, we published a story about Turo, the outfit that many call the "Airbnb of rental car companies” (link at end). Like Airbnb, Turo acts as a middleman, matching persons who want to rent ...

Turo is a peer-to-peer car sharing platform that allows car owners to rent out their own cars to regular people. Consider it a sort of Airbnb for cars. Given high rental car prices and often limited ...

In the early hours of Jan. 1, 2025, two horrific attacks shook the nation, raising serious questions about car-sharing platform security and potential terrorism links. In Las Vegas, a Tesla Cybertruck ...

On New Year's Day, a man drove a rented Ford F-150 truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring more than 30. On the same day, someone parked a rented Tesla Cybertruck filled ...

Turo is an app that allows people to rent out their cars to other drivers. The app was used to rent the vehicles used in two deadly incidents on New Year's Day. Since it was founded in 2009, it has ...

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Turo, which investigators say was used to acquire the vehicles involved in the attack in New Orleans and explosion in Las Vegas, was emerging as an alternative car-rental service. By Eli Tan Reporting ...

Renters using Turo are not required to have a US license and are not required to have personal insurance coverage to rent a car, according to Turo’s website. Turo said in a statement that insurance is ...

Q: I rented a car from Turo in Baltimore recently. My family met our host at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and he gave us the keys to the vehicle. Everything was going well, and we were ...

Turo offers three optional protection plans at an additional cost, each with increasingly more insurance coverage: a minimum, standard and premier plan. Depending on the level of add-on insurance from ...

A 10-hour rental advertised at $30 per day can easily become twice that. In this example, there’s a mandatory $15 trip fee. Then, Turo adds standard protection for $12 by default (though you can ...