Comment by jjav

Not OP but I interpret that as they are focusing exclusively on what happened after the car saw the kid.

And I completely agree that from that instant forward, the car did everything correctly.

But if I was the accident investigator for this, I would be far more interested in what happened in the 30 seconds before the car saw the kid.

Was the kid visible earlier and then disappear behind an obstruction? Or did the kid arrive from the side and was never earlier visible? These are the more important questions.