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

by alex_young on 1/2/2025, 4:09:32 AM with 89 comments

  • by solardev on 1/2/2025, 5:18:36 AM

    Turo cars are typically owned by private individuals, are they not? (It's like Airbnb for cars.) Gotta suck to be the owner of one of those trucks. Both from an insurance standpoint (are terrorist acts covered?) and also as a "this one time I rented out my car on Turo" story... especially the New Orleans truck owner :/

  • by magic_smoke_ee on 1/2/2025, 5:58:08 AM

    Ryder rented both vehicles used in Oklahoma City and '93 WTC. This is a meaningless grasping at straws unless we want to forbid rental vehicles entirely because of what 1:10 million outliers might do with them. Maybe we ought to figure out what's wrong with us, people at home, and the conditions of people elsewhere in the world who are going on suicidal rampages, and then help, reform, or reset in multiple-point, holistic approach to put peoples on-track as viable, healthy civilizations without as much violence?

  • by ChrisArchitect on 1/2/2025, 6:31:59 AM

    Related:

    Felon after Felon renting my cars

    https://old.reddit.com/r/turo/comments/1hnh3i3/felon_after_f...

    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572075)

  • by porphyra on 1/2/2025, 4:53:50 AM

    I wonder why so many articles continue to say "exploded" and "caught fire" when by now it's clear that it was a deliberate act. I mean, it's not wrong, but it seems to insinuate that there's something wrong with the vehicle that caused the explosion, rather than someone intentionally stuffing it full of fireworks and explosives.

  • by xnx on 1/2/2025, 5:13:58 AM

    Business Insider has some great YouTube videos, but there's no reason to use them as a source for news of the day.

  • by OutOfHere on 1/2/2025, 5:12:13 AM

    https://archive.ph/COPTJ

  • by matt3210 on 1/2/2025, 6:42:00 AM

    I wish things weren’t so politically turbulent in the US. Big, global, uncensored megaphones are the problem I think.

  • by ChrisArchitect on 1/2/2025, 6:34:52 AM

    Related:

    A Tesla Cybertruck 'blew up' outside Trump's hotel in Las Vegas

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568936

  • by ggm on 1/2/2025, 6:25:57 AM

    Bang per buck is an EV a better improvised munitions? Fuel energy of petrol/distillate is high but the un-putoutable nature of the battery might Trump.

  • by trhway on 1/2/2025, 5:25:16 AM

    Sign of times - both EV

  • by SV_BubbleTime on 1/2/2025, 4:53:48 AM

    A. It didn’t explode at all. AT BEST it deflagrated. But really, it was set on fire to make a ham fisted political point. The car didn’t do anything on its own.

    B. BusinessInsider isn’t a real site. It’s a political blog pretending to be legitimate on zero earned merit.

    C. Why does it matter that it was rented? And how is this some stunning reveal of a Turo business flaw that the NOLA murderer also used the popular rental service?