Correct. This was 30 years ago, but the first lesson I got in converting from a Canadian driver to European norms is to NEVER slow down or stop to facilitate a pedestrian who was Jay walking or not in a signed and protected cross walk; your car will be rear ended and you will be found at fault. And as a pedestrian, recognize where you are allowed to walk, and traveled roads ways are for cars; cause an accident and you are at fault. Hard simple rules that recognized reality. Canadian driving habits are regressing to a Middle Eastern norm (for some reason!), but the idiotic presumption of the virtuous and progressive classes that they own the roads to dawdle on is as much of a problem.  Darwin will sort this out in the long run, as self-interest in survival seems to have become beneath them.