TESLA Vehicles: Are There GHOSTS In The Machine?

TESLA Vehicles: Are There GHOSTS In The Machine?

by Bill Knell

There have been a number of social media posts showing people driving their Tesla vehicles through a cemetery, forest or some other isolated area late at night. The vehicle's people detector suddenly begins to display individuals or groups that aren't visually present. This has led to the possibility that ghosts, angels or spirits are being detected by the technology involved.

This all began when the driver of a Tesla and his passengers were driving through a cemetery near the Arnold Estate, an 18th century farmhouse located at 1677 Round Top Road in Burrillville, Rhode Island, which became the inspiration for the 2013 film “The Conjuring”. Figures started to appear on the car’s control screen causing everyone in the vehicle to freak out and believe they were being surrounded by unseen spirits.

Teslas are able to display information about nearby objects such as pedestrians and other vehicles on the central display screen thanks to cameras and sophisticated sensors. The company says that their vehicles are not programmed to interpret inanimate objects as people, and that they should not be able to detect unseen spirits if that is even possible.

In the posts I have seen people driving slowly through a cemetery, forest or abandoned town late at night suddenly find their central control screen filling up with human shaped figures. These individuals and some groups appear and disappear quickly, moving at a rapid pace.

One technology blogger states, “Reports of "ghosts" in Tesla's people detector are a viral phenomenon resulting from the vehicle's sensor system misidentifying objects. This causes a human-like figure to appear on the car's display where there is no person present. While not supernatural, these false detections are related to a known safety issue with Tesla's driver-assist features known as phantom braking".

In 2021 Tesla replaced radar based detection with a system known as “TeslaVision” which uses eight external cameras. These feed visual information into the vehicle's neural network, which identifies objects like cars, cones, and people. According to the company and some tech experts, the system sometimes incorrectly interprets a non-human object as a human and displays the false positive on the driver's screen. The "ghosts" may appear when the car's cameras are confused by things like cemetery tombstones, shadows from large objects like bridges or overpasses, and signs.

My problem with this explanation is that it makes no sense for a company to use a system so full of flaws that it becomes a useless liability overall. Some point out that the problem of Phantom Braking may also be caused by this camera system when the vehicle is in Autopilot or adaptive cruise control mode. This may be true, but unrelated to the “ghost" detection situation.

One point that people who believe this is just a tech problem miss is that many of these ghosts in the machine have also been seen or detected at other times by people or equipment. Places like the graveyard near the “The Conjuring” property have been investigated by ghost hunters who report it to be haunted. Ghost Hunting equipment like spirit boxes, EMF meters, digital thermometers, digital video cameras, night vision cameras and digital audio recorders have, in many cases, already established the presence of supernatural activity where Tesla ghosts are also seen.

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