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You're talking about the height of the headrest, not how far forward they go for some reason

Oh it's 'blatantly' true that the headrest are for safety. The problem is engineers can't design a perfect one size fits all. So things are designed around averages. It's the best they can do.

If you fall outside of those averages at either end well, there is going to be more risk. As a male who is above average height, automotive headrests add more risk for me just as they do for a smaller woman.

A head rest is designed to stop you getting whiplash. How does someone being shorter, make it more dangerous?

While I definitely think there's truth in what you say, I don't think it's the real reason. The posture car seats try to put you in is just not good sometimes. If the seat itself lets you sit up straight, the headrest juts out, or the headrest is okay but the seat is curved into a bowl. It's comfy for lazy sitting, which is what most people will want to settle into, but if you try to be mindful of your posture, you're doing it without real support from your seat.

Well there is that while I have also never seen a headrest that goes high enough for me.

It's not meant to be a pillow but it also shouldn't force your head forward at an unnatural angle just because you have decent posture. Car headrests are designed for hunchbacks.

No way, I'm still picking scales out of my crack from the last time I gave that a shot

Hmm.. Maybe we need a split headrest. Kids having something fun to pull on is another consideration.

I took my head rest out on my rav.

I might have died when my head snapped off, but at least my back and neck stopped killing me for the five years I drove it.

Mine forces bad posture. Sitting with an erect spine means my head is tilted steeply forward.

I have to lean the seat back until I'm not resting my back against the seat so there's less pressure in my neck. That means I'm not able to rest my upper back at all.

What i wouldn't give for 1cm of adjustment.

Lowest part of neck to higheat part of the headrest? Sounds like the before times when peoples necks snapped in acidents because nothing stopped their head shooting backward

Best advice I ever received posture wise was to pretend my nipples were Lazer guns and try to shoot people in the face. I like to say pewpew in my head

then why do some of them go so far forward? I'd love to rest my upper back against the seat every now and then, but that requires me to move my head forward like in the OP.

Okay so I think some people might need a course on why headrests are designed this ungodly way...

during a rear-end collision or sudden braking as the vehicle makes a sharp forward-backward movement. Without the angled headrests, passengers may suffer spine misalignment of spine-related injuries due to sudden movements. The headrests also keep the spine in position with its “forward-looking” design. This stops the pain and other symptoms associated with a misaligned spine.