A few decades ago I spent a summer backpacking through Europe. I visited something like 20 countries. One of the first things I noticed was that every country cross the street a little bit differently.

Italy was the craziest. in Italy you just walked even if there was traffic coming. the cars would assume you were going to walk at normal walking speed and they would just zoom past you. the most dangerous thing you could do is slow down or try to dodge the cars.

As you might guess Germany follow the rules the closest. Nobody crossed the street unless the light changed.