Example Concept: Rust's ownership model is based on three main rules: each value in Rust has a single owner, a value is dropped when its owner goes out of scope, and references to data must obey borrowing rules. The borrow checker enforces these rules, ensuring that at any time, you can have either one mutable reference or any number of immutable references to a piece of data, but not both. This design allows Rust to manage memory safely and efficiently without needing a garbage collector.