That's the one complaint I have about the car and I think you're wrong about the angle not affecting the driver, it is affecting me, especially on long drives it becomes bothersome. At least passenger can recline the seat or find some other way to be comfortable, but driver has less options and yes, reversing the headrest moves it too far away and becomes even dangerous in case of rear end collision, there is no support and that could injure your neck. I want to make a trip to the junkyard to find another headrest and bend the rods to my liking. I don't want to do it to the original headrest because I'm afraid it will crack and I'll be left without the headrest. If you're short, you could lift it up above your head a little (I'm tall so it won't work for me), another way would be to reverse it and attach some pillow on top of it. I have some long, 10 - 15 hours non stop trips planned in the future and there is no way I'll survive them without fixing that headrest somehow. if I can't fix the headrest, I will try some heavy padded seat cover, to move my whole body away from the back seat, but that opens another can of worms , since there is air bag in the side of the seat.