Is the recent video showing cars crashing into something invisible, a true depiction of actual events, or is the video a hoax concocted by artful editing?

This video is indeed real. Despite your skepticism from reading the many comments dismissing this as artful editing, you knew intuitively it was genuine and your ability to discriminate intellectually, also found no visible fault and many things that would have been quite hard to mimic to produce an elegant hoax. Being genuine, this begs the question what is going on and why? As you have seen intuitively, this is yet another carefully constructed series of bizarre anomalies not readily explained by anything conventional that will be used to support the Disclosure Movement, down the line, by coming back to these accidents on record with photographic evidence of their bizarre nature, with no seeming explanation as these cars simply seem to crash into something invisible and then become damaged extensively as a consequence of the collision. There is no conventional explanation. As the saying goes, "seeing is believing," and that is the reason for this strategy. Sometimes you will believe more with your eyes then your ears, particularly information given by someone unknown to you. That is the uphill battle the extraterrestrials know they will be facing with their disclosure plans, needing to convince humanity of the reality of what they say in the face of thousands of years of deception, disparagement, and mind control manipulation to make people disbelieve in extraterrestrials. So this is for a sinister purpose and, of course, the choice of something with severe consequences for humans is in keeping with the message that will be given, that security cameras were recording surreptitious mischief by Reptilian extraterrestrials wanting to harm human beings for their own personal pleasure, as they are depraved, savage, and warlike and wanting to see people suffer. In addition, is the helplessness of humanity in the face of such mischief, as you have no way to prepare for something virtually invisible. They could suddenly be present to block your way and cause even a fatal collision. This will be compelling incentive to listen to what these extraterrestrials will be saying as would-be rescuers. It will be a deception, because they are in cahoots with the Reptilians and are simply staging all of this to gain your trust. The downside is you will become complicit with their dark plans to annihilate humanity by allowing them to have more say in things. That is all they need to pull off their scheme. If you go along with them, you will seal your fate.