Not at all. The eu has pedestrian safety standards that must be met as well as passenger safety. In those countries Tesla and Mercedes, to name a few, have active pedestrian safety devices in the hood that change the angle of the hood just before a pedestrian strike to minimize injury. They remove those safety devices in North American markets where there isn’t testing. Do you really need a peer reviewed study to tell you that getting hit by a truck in the chest/head is going to be more dangerous than getting struck by a small sedan in the legs?

If you do, Euro NCAP has them.