A man recently reported encountering an unusual problem with his Tesla as it keeps detecting humans right on top of tombstones in graveyards, which don't exist or are not seen in the area.
As specified in an IFL Science report, a video posted by a TikTok user with the username @iam3dgar shows him driving slowly through a graveyard, set to "spooky music."
@iam3dgar All the spirits came out today... #ghost #spirit #cemetery #tesla #elonmusk #help #thebatman ♬ Spooky, quiet, scary atmosphere piano songs - Skittlegirl Sound
As it keeps going, the user films the dashboard as it begins to show human figures on screen, seemingly indicating human-shaped hazards lurk among the graves, which this report described as "creepy enough as it is."
What possibly happened here was that either the cemetery was haunted, and the Tesla vehicle could see in clairvoyant, or something was going on with the car's sensor and, or hazard-detecting software. Perhaps the sensors are functioning, which means that the software encounters something it has detected unusually.
The Power of Technology
In May 2021, the Car and Driver website reported about the Autopilot system of Tesla that used eight cameras, multiple ultrasonic sensors, and forward radar to detect nearby vehicles and read lane lines.
The then-new cars would depend mainly on the cameras of the vehicle and the processing ability of its computer to utilize Autopilot, as well as the other features already included in the so-called FSD or Full Self-Driving package.
Therefore, in the case of the TikTok user, it could be that the eight cameras of Tesla or its 12 ultrasonic sensors were simply faulty, which caused the problem.
Glitches Experienced
The glitches experienced in Tesla are said to be "false positives." This means they are detections of dangers that are not there or are not physically seen. It could be that the vehicle had picked up the flowers near the camera and interpreted them as dangers further away. Automotive vehicles should be returning more false positives than negatives regarding safety.
Users of the vehicle are encouraged to think of whether it is better to wrongly detect that a young boy or girl has run into the road than to fail to detect the same incidence.
Hence, when algorithms are tweaked, experts in the field said it is better to be safe than "have the software err" on the side of bringing back more false positives than negatives.
False Positives and Negatives
That is not to say that false positives are never a problem at all. Tesla has recalled vehicles before for being susceptible to false-positive braking.
In 2018, Wired reported that according to the founder of the self-driving shuttle company May Mobility, Ed Olson, false positives are hazardous. He added, that a car slamming on the brakes unexpectedly "is likely to get into wrecks."
Anyone building detection systems, be it medical tests, security-screening devices, or the softer that's making self-driving cars perceive and analyze their surroundings, is aware and fearful of both the scenario types, the false positives and negatives.
The problem with avoiding the two, though, is that the more one gets away from one, the nearer he gets to the other. Sometimes, the IFL Science report specified, "just sometimes," it can be convincing for one that he is detecting the rising of the dead."
Related information about Tesla catching ghosts at the cemetery is shown on Sanders Crew's YouTube video below:
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