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USA Today has a story confirming that the feds have new requirements on how far a headrest can be from the driver’s head, and that is why they sit so close. Because so many drivers insist on heavily reclined positions, automakers have canted the headrests far forward to keep them legal in the average “reclined” position.
They also go on to state that Ford has put adjustable headrests in the new Explorer and is rolling them out to all their models that allow the driver to rotate the headrest to allow for a more comfortable upright seating position.
Of course the story acts like this is some sort of new idea - but I’ve seen rotating headrests before… maybe these ones latch and are therefore legal while the old ones didn’t?