Example Concept: Rust's ownership model prevents data races by enforcing rules that ensure safe access to data. Each piece of data in Rust has a single owner, and the borrow checker enforces borrowing rules: you can have either one mutable reference or any number of immutable references to a piece of data at a time. This prevents simultaneous modification and reading of data, which is the root cause of data races. Rust's concurrency model, combined with its ownership and borrowing rules, ensures that data races are caught at compile time, providing thread safety without the need for runtime checks.