It lacks the psychological equipment to feel tickles. However, the movement of my fingertips along the surface of the car is just like the movement of my fingertips along Thalia's belly. This movement is a property in the world. It is not a phenomenal property, because only phenomenally conscious organisms can have phenomenal properties. Moreover, there is nothing it is like for the car to be tickled.
Cars have no experiences.
There is something it is like to be tickled for Thalia. Thalia experiences the tickling. If there are distinctions to be drawn here it is between a property in the world and Thalia's phenomenal experience of this property. This said, I would agree with Carruthers that there is a distinction between representations of properties in the world and representations of representations of properties in the world. A painting represents properties in the world and a photograph of a painting can thereby be a representation of a representation.