Sometimes I Worry for the Birds

I recall that birds in Singapore used to be more nervous and alert to danger. When I was younger. they would fly away when I am not even 2 metres close. But nowadays, I notice cars speeding towards these birds and they would still be walking leisurely in their head-out-head-in bird motion in the middle of the road. Then, just before the car crushes them, they would calmly and suavely take a hop to the side and the car would just miss it by like 20cm. Is it my imagination that birds have evolved? Or was it that I was more dangerous than a car when I was younger.