People keep seeing ghosts on Tesla screens in graveyards

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A video of a Tesla driving slowly through a graveyard is going viral on Tiktok this week because it looks like the car’s collision detection program is spotting ghosts. Or, at least that’s what the People of the Internet want to believe.

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In the clip, the driver has a camera pointed at the interior dash screen that detects and displays objects that the car could potentially collide with when on autopilot. Usually it shows pedestrians and animals, like deer or dogs, and is meant to keep the motorist aware of their surroundings, even when they’re not in control of the car. In the viral video taken in a graveyard, the system seemingly detects several human shapes as well as a dog, all of which very much do not exist in real life. Click here to watch the video.

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The clip (which, at the time of writing, had already received 3.3  million views) was uploaded by a woman named Yailin Murillo who says it was taken by her uncle. But it’s not the first time reports of a Tesla tracking mysterious invisible figures inside of a cemetery have surfaced.

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As much as we’d like to believe that Elon and his team at Tesla have figured out how to code a sixth sense into the EVs, the non-existent figures seen are more likely the result of a flaw in the vehicle’s collision avoidance system.

There are a few theories about what the sensor system is actually picking up, including the flowers on the gravesites that could be mistaken for a small child or an animal.

One commenter on the video (@stalinfortimeee) says he has “worked on Tesla’s [sic]” and muses that because the sensors are “super strong,” the car is actually “detecting a human anatomy from 6ft under.”

Elon is pretty active on Twitter , so maybe if enough people tweet at him about the various ghost sightings he’ll provide some kind of Elon-esque answer.