With all due respect, it seems to me like your simple explanation explains very little. There is no way (besides kids having fun) that a human driver would int

With all due respect, it seems to me like your simple explanation explains very little. There is no way (besides kids having fun) that a human driver would intentionally hit a cardboard box found in the middle of the road, full or empty as it might be, and as well an automated system will brake or avoid the cardboard box. But the point is that even when there is no cardboard box anywhere (nor pedestrians, nor cars, nor anything) these "phantom breakings" happen, example: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/ https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto... It is obvious that something went wrong in the sensors, in the tramission/processing of the data or somewhere there is a bug in the algorithms, but (AFAIK) nothing specific (and reproducible) has been found, in this sense "The cause of such events is still a mistery." seems to me correct.