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Cars are probably one of the worst possible examples, since most transactions require the title.

Are you proposing that a car salesman might refuse to sell someone a car on the chance that the buyer could be a criminal of some sort?

No, just that the paper trail generated by purchasing a car from a dealership is undesirable for a criminal. This is why conventional financial institutions and services are undesirable for most criminals.

Bitcoin transactions go in a public ledger. Although there are methods to obfuscate transaction history.

>This is why conventional financial institutions and services are undesirable for most criminals.

I think reality is in disagreement with you, as counter-intuitive as that may seem.

I think he's asking about ethics. Just because this could be used for money laundering doesn't mean it must be used for money laundering.