I was driving a busload of kids home one evening outside of Philadelphia, and I passed by a mechanic's shop that had a big lit-up sign that said "WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS". I'd like to assume it was a honeypot but I have no idea if it was or not.
Same, but my state. It was maybe 6 months after mine was stolen.
(technically, you can still sell them but the rules are strict. One of the ways was if the catalytic converter was attached to a car at the time. I think the other way was just more paperwork.)
: proceeds to hallucinate that the car factory needs to reroute catalytic converters to China by using its unfettered access in the procurement and shipping systems :
Well apparently all it would need to do is be a generstive AI trained on the image of a cstslytic converter in order to ""steal"" them.