Highlight vehicles in search function

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Highlight vehicles in search function

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TL;DR
Cars and tanks are hard to find in the remote/map view; the search function should be able to find them.

What?
I believe the search function in the remote view should highlight vehicles in the viewed surface.
map with tanks marked.png
map with tanks marked.png (599.17 KiB) Viewed 173 times
Note: Vehicles not marked are cars

Why?
In Factorio 2.0 tanks play an important role both in building and fighting, especially when the player is in another planet;
as such, finding some tank (or Spidertron) to take control should be quick and easy.
Being able to "ctrl-f" cars, tanks and Spidertrons seems the most straightforward and logical way to me.

Some workarounds exists (see "Background"), but I think the game would benefit from a more solid and permanent solution.
Background
This was already mentioned a few times, but nothing came out of it:
Find my tank
Search for car in map, maybe by naming it?
Unique map icons for tank and car

Some related issues also found in the forums:
Icons for vehicles on map?
Here another user is complaining that finding their tank is hard, as sprites are hard to read when zoomed out.

Unexpected Factorio Question: Where Did I Park My Tank?
Here more users complain about not being able to find their vehicles.

Some workarounds proposed were:
  1. Pinning vehicles to the sidebar -> I have A LOT of tanks and cars (and soon enough Spidertrons), I don't want to spam my pinned list with stuff I don't need to always see!
  2. Changing the sprite -> While the current sprite is a bit hard to read from a distance, changing it to something more "noticeable" would not fix the issue of needing to SEARCH my entire base to find it
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