[rocket_surgeron]

>If I'm in reverse for example I lose all ability to adjust the temperature, fan, or seat temperature

For every single millisecond after you check your backup camera to make sure there's no kid in the blind spot behind your car, your whole-ass body should be rotated with you head looking over your shoulder and out the rear window.

Unless you have a monster SUV that you can't see out of anyways, in which case use the screen.

In either case the driver should be spending an exact and precise 0.0% of the time a vehicle is in reverse manipulating any control not related to steering and acceleration.

"But what if the passeng.." Don't. Please don't.

[HereBeBeasties]

What if I stop the car entirely while I perform the adjustments? "Put it in park" I hear you say. Tedious, and doesn't always work anyway - many cars leave you with a full-screen reversing camera even once you're moving forwards until you get above 5mph or whatever. And what if I want to stop and adjust my side mirrors to see better, and those are adjusted via the touch screen? (I'm looking at you, Tesla.)

Guess what? I can happily reach down and adjust a real temperature dial by touch while looking at a reversing camera, without looking at that dial or being distracted, in the same way that I can do that while driving forwards. It's the touch screen that's the problem here.

[Pxtl]

What really? I find the side mirrors and the backup cam 10X better for lining up the car perfectly than doing the oldschool look-over-shoulder arm-over passenger seat thing.

Especially since the backup cam doesn't change in perspective as I crane my head to get the side of the car in view in the sideview mirrors.

[rascul]

That's one way to do it, but not the only safe and effective way. Also some injuries will prevent turning the body around in the seat.