A car painted entirely with side-swipe looking paint "scratches" in order to avoid accusations that your vehicle has damaged another vehicle's paint. Also works the other way round if the body's made of titanium.
-- nineteenthly, Jun 05 2011

Car_20Tatoos [Sir_Misspeller, Jun 05 2011]

Titanium can be scratched by materials with a lower relative hardness, as can many other 'hard' things, like tungsten and diamond.
-- Alterother, Jun 05 2011


//lower relative hardness// as distinct from lower absolute hardness?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 05 2011


If only a paints' pigment was also friction activated, then it could be a convolution of guilts' placement: If a vehical's verdical-paint contained alternate pigments with properties that'd catalyze; mixed (along with squished-heat generated) when sideswipe incidented.
-- Sir_Misspeller, Jun 05 2011


It is plausibly deniable that my "car" has a paint job. (The quotes are due to the absence of enhanced mobility as traditionally implied by the word).
-- spidermother, Jun 05 2011


The titanium was an afterthought.

Anyway, it occurs to me that if there is for some reason a vertical scratch it will be very obvious. It also occurs to me that paint could include microscopic numbered glass beads like smart water.
-- nineteenthly, Jun 06 2011


A proximity alert, blue-tooth chassis/number plate info sys,,.-.-.-...-.--.-. clearing all doubts of claims, and truths.
-- sirau, Jun 06 2011


[MB], I'm normally not one to concede a perfectly good semantics argument (the more trivial, the better!), but I gotta hand it to ya, ya got me.
-- Alterother, Jun 08 2011


Some people have relatives who are hard enough to key a titanium car.
-- mouseposture, Jun 09 2011



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