Ghosts Exist! (Parking Sensor False Readings)

[Lemonskin]

Irrevocable proof that ghosts exist!

I was sitting in my car this morning on Botany Road, first car at the lights so nothing in front of me. Out of nowhere, my front left parking sensor starts beeping, showing something close to my front bumper. I looked out and there was nothing. Slowly, the "thing" kept getting closer (the sensor showed something coming closer like i was moving towards a wall) and closer until it was apparently right next to my car (sensor blaring on red). Then the sensor showed the thing moving away pretty quickly.

Of course I don't believe it was a ghost, just the sensor picking a bit of trash on the road or something up, but it was pretty bizarre and freaked me out a little at the time

[n0d3]

Ghost crossing the road? :p

[gldgti]

Ghost crossing the road? :p

I vote it was the chicken crossing the road... too low to see over the bonnet but he had to get to the other side, right?

[Lemonskin]

I vote it was the chicken crossing the road... too low to see over the bonnet but he had to get to the other side, right?

Ha! Nice

[LMF]

Same thing happened to my car about a week ago ...

[Dutch77]

No ghosts, but a kind of handy feature - the genius council who redid the kerb and driveway exiting my carpark at work created such a dip that as my car approaches the lowest point I actually get a front beep warning me I might hit something. It's actually picking up the rise of the road on the other side of the dip. Probably a good indication I won't be lowering this time around.

[VW Convert]

I vote it was the chicken crossing the road... too low to see over the bonnet but he had to get to the other side, right?

Still doesn't answer the question why the chicken was crossing the road!


Cheers

George

[n0d3]

No ghosts, but a kind of handy feature - the genius council who redid the kerb and driveway exiting my carpark at work created such a dip that as my car approaches the lowest point I actually get a front beep warning me I might hit something. It's actually picking up the rise of the road on the other side of the dip. Probably a good indication I won't be lowering this time around.

Yeah, I get really paranoid with dips in the roads especially when coming off driveways or carparks...they make the sensor go off like crazy. Nowadays I just drive really slow.

[Dutch77]

Yeah, I get really paranoid with dips in the roads especially when coming off driveways or carparks...they make the sensor go off like crazy. Nowadays I just drive really slow.

Wise idea - the same idiot council left their roadworks unmarked, in the dark, with a hole when they were re-doing the drive described above. Needless to say my Mk6 GTI (lowered) lost when it met the hole, to the point where the car could not go forward - the depth is per the highest scratches. Of course the council blamed the workers, the workers blamed their boss.. and their boss was nowhere to be found. Too scared to show up on site anyway. The council changed contractors after that.

[LMF]

understandable for a moving vehicle but in my case my car was stopped at the light when it happens ... ... faulty sensor. Have the car for 9 months now and only happened once.

[veew]

Wise idea - the same idiot council left their roadworks unmarked, in the dark, with a hole when they were re-doing the drive described above. Needless to say my Mk6 GTI (lowered) lost when it met the hole, to the point where the car could not go forward - the depth is per the highest scratches. Of course the council blamed the workers, the workers blamed their boss.. and their boss was nowhere to be found. Too scared to show up on site anyway. The council changed contractors after that.

Damn, so did the council compensate you?

[Dutch77]

Damn, so did the council compensate you?

Nah they spun some story about how it's the contractors responsibility, and of course the contractor has no real contact details. Thing is the car was due to be moved on two days later and I didn't have time to chase it down. Fortunately my crash repairer was able to tidy the whole thing up for $200 - had to crawl on the ground to spot a few touch ups. If I'd been retaining the car I would have just chucked it through insurance and maybe hassled the council more.

[kennyc]

Same happened to me the other day, but before i left the house i turned the washer on (which would have turned on the washer for the Bi-xenon headlights). So i am guessing some water went near the sensor and made it go crazy? This was like 3 minutes after i left the house and was turning onto another road.

[Lemonskin]

Do the sensors go off if they're dirty I wonder? You'd think not but maybe that doesn't help...

[n0d3]

Strangely enough this happened to me today, with the back sensors.