Vehicle theft

Vice's write-up describes vehicles split by how hard they are to take, with the app doing the survey work first. Some cars report their own position automatically, so you either outrun the signal or leave the car.

• The app reports value, registration cost, alarm and tracker
• Older cars: slim jim. Modern cars: key-cloning gear from later in the story
• A tracker means the car reports itself, so you outrun it or abandon it
• Damage lowers the payout, so a clean theft is worth more

A car is no longer just transport: it is a described object the police can log and a buyer can price. That connects theft to the wanted system on one side and to the money economy on the other.