“…The spread of advanced occupant protection systems should help to mitigate the effects of vehicle incompatibility in the future, because crash avoidance systems reduce speed at impact (and therefore the force exchanged between vehicles), and improvements to airbags and other passive systems reduce the forces ultimately delivered to occupants (Brannstrom et al 2010;Batra et al 2017). Remaining fleet incompatibility between pickups and cars should also decrease as older vehicles not meeting the guidelines of the Enhancing Vehicle Compatibility (EVC) group continue to be phased out (Teoh and Nolan 2012).…”