The parents of a New Jersey man killed in a 2017 ISIS-inspired rental-truck terror attack in Manhattan says a law honoring their son must be updated to prevent terrorists from using Turo and similar ride-sharing apps as they did this week in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
The US Department of Homeland Security was required to create a report outlining strategies to help prevent vehicular terrorist attacks as part of the “Darren Drake Act,” named after a 32-year-old among the eight stuck and killed by a rented Home Depot truck driven onto a bike path by terrorist Sayfullo Saipov in the Halloween attack along the West Side Highway.
The law sponsored by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) required DHS to draft a list of “best practices” for car and truck rental companies to report suspicious behavior by renters to law enforcement to help prevent vehicles from being used as weapons of mass destruction.
But the law fails to directly address car-sharing apps like Turo , which act as AirBnb-like middlemen by allowing users to rent vehicles from hosts registered with the site…