As you may guess from my forum name, my main form of transport is a motorcycle, and I can endorse the things said about modern drivers; I come across them every day.
Volvos are not the tanks they used to be, so not much point to me in buying them, and you have to wear a flat cap to drive one. In a previous job, fleet cars were chosen on the basis of several factors, one being crash test ratings, another one a flat boot entry to reduce manual handling problems, etc. We ended up with a Toyota Avensis. They were talking to BMW about fleet cars, and I remember pointing out to them the awful reputation that drivers of these have. I long ago concluded that if anyone was going to do for me, it would be a BMW driver. Indeed, I got knocked over at a roundabout a few years ago, when I stopped but the idiot behind didn't. Guess what he was driving? Probably yakking on his mobile (when is the government going to get tough on this practice, it really is ridiculous?). Bad enough, but he blamed me for damaging his car! If I hadn't had half of Birmingham passing by as witnesses, it wouldn't have been the only thing damaged!
Driving standards are declining in inverse proportion to the growth in safety features in cars, and I suspect a link between these. I think this move to more and more features to protect drivers (rarely other road users, I notice) is barking up the wrong tree. Until something meaningful is done to raise driving standards, we will continue to suffer the consequences of having so may numbnuts on the road.
Most modern cars are full of safety features (even Land Rover have tried to improve their previously awful crash test ratings by redesigning the car shell, even if they now look like an elephant has sat on them), so I think most of them are much of a muchness. Even car adverts have abandoned the notion of publicising the features of the cars, trying to reel people in by lifestyle factors, as there is relatively little to differentiate between them (when I see a modern advert of the latest model flashing down an empty road, I just want to know where the blessed road is!)