Man Encounters 'Glitch in the Matrix' As He Leaves His Home

A man has provided photographic evidence of a potential "glitch in the matrix" that he discovered outside his home in Athens, Georgia.

Justin Bivona took to Reddit to share a picture of the sight that greeted him as he walked down the street where he lives.

It was a line of six seemingly identical white SUVs parked in a perfect row. "My initial thought is always a glitch in the Matrix," Bivona told Newsweek. "The simulation couldn't run fast enough, so it had to copy and paste the same car."

Inspired by the 1999 film The Matrix, about a version of the world where humanity is living inside a computer simulation, in recent years the term a "glitch in the matrix" has become internet shorthand for an example of an occurrence that cannot be explained away by logic.

Previous notable examples of glitches in the matrix include a lemon which appeared to repair itself after being cut in half and a picture of three identical cats. In another instance, a video of liquid flowing into a container had viewers online similarly stumped.

Though debate rages online over whether we are indeed living in a simulation, in 2017, theoretical physicists concluded that it would be almost impossible for computers to efficiently simulate all aspects of our reality.

Researchers from the University of Oxford concluded that "even just to store the information about a few hundred electrons on a computer, one would require a memory built from more atoms than there are in the universe."

That didn't stop people from going down the rabbit hole, albeit tongue-in-cheek, once Bivona posted a picture of the identical SUVs to Reddit.

"Wow, the simulator must be running out of RAM," one user quipped. "it stopped loading textures," another commented, with a third replying: "It's not that, the code that determines random traffic spawning and car placement is low on free memory so it's spawning the same car over and over again."

One Redditor compared it to something out of a computer game. "It's like in GTA V when you steal a car and half of the NPC (non-player character) cars you encounter afterwards become the same model as what you just stole. Another said: "OP is on to us. Abort mission. I repeat, abort mission. The turkey has laid its eggs."

Despite his simulated concerns over a potential glitch in the matrix, Bivona said he knows that's probably not the case.

"I live literally right beside the University of Georgia campus," he said. "I would say small, white SUVs are the trend right now among the young generation."

He added: "The fact is, I have street parking right off campus and people take advantage of it. I did find it highly coincidental how similar they all were though."

Bivona did note that the number of SUVs among the student populace was interesting. "I don't think most people who drive them need them," he said. "We unfortunately live in a car-centric culture and they're just getting bigger."