Ravage and Howlback and Soundwave and Glit all look at each other; Viridian's not sure what the question is really about, and Soundwave sends her the message that Ravage or he will explain it later.

"That's...a good question," Howlback says. "If someone's using an avatar, they may not see or hear you unless they perceive a threat. This isn't a planet under infiltration protocol or noninterference directive, so...I would have told you to stop if I'd been conscious. I would suggest that you not engage with a vehicle in that manner, because even if it's just a car it belongs to someone else.

"But if you're going to...make a lot of noise, so that someone who's running an avatar will notice you before you get started. And check. If it's not the kind of vehicle you'd expect to see--if there are foreign words or characters on it, or it's got odd kibble on it, just...don't. I look like a Cybertronian police vehicle. I'm not labelled in any language you know."

Ravage shrugged. "It's better to assume that a car is a person than not. Even if Misfire and I did make fools of ourselves once, yelling at a yellow car that we thought had called us names."