Autonomous vehicles are our future. In the coming years, vehicles with internal combustion engines will be replaced by self-driving electric or hydrogen-powered cars if we look at the developing dynamics. Self-driving vehicles will need artificial intelligence systems and advanced sensor data. An interesting video was uploaded to the internet in 2017 about these vehicles, the first examples of which are at the disposal of many people even today. Perhaps those who watched this video, which most of you were not aware of, were almost stunned. That video still manages to amaze the audience even today.
“CAN A CIRCLE OF SALT CYCLE AN AUTONOMOUS CAR?”
In that video by artist James Bridle, there is a claim that an autonomous vehicle can be immobilized and paralyzed with salt circles. In the video, it is shown that it is possible to paralyze a self-driving car using only salt.
HERE IS THE ‘SALT TRAP’ THAT SURPRISES EVERYONE
Using only salt, two rings are drawn around the vehicle in the video, one as broken strips and the other as uninterrupted.
As a result, it seems that the vehicle remains in place without doing anything.
THE COMMENTS ARE CONCITING
One of the comments on the video is confusing. Because the comment claims that the vehicle used in the video is not an autonomous car.
YEARS AFTER THAT VIDEO, ELON MUSK ATTENDED THIS TIME
Years after the salt trap video was released, when the calendars showed 2021, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, who also deals with autonomous vehicles, this time took the stage. Musk responded to a post shared by a currently suspended account about a Tesla being trapped in a circle of salt as if the vehicle were a supernatural entity.
Musk replied on his Twitter account, “Probably this trap could stop a Tesla with Autopilot, but it will not work on a vehicle with FSD (Full Self Driving – Tesla’s Full Self Driving software). It may be possible to stop it,” he said.
The Tesla CEO’s response showed that a Tesla driven by the onboard computer could be stopped by traps like the salt circle. This greatly strengthened the possibility that the video uploaded in 2017, which includes the claim that an autonomous vehicle can be stopped with a salt circle, is true.
While this technological quirk may seem like fun, future models may be able to handle it, or even have it. But it’s not without question that people can still somehow manipulate a self-driving car in a way that could disrupt its driving.