> Honest question: do you really see people touch the level of their ac during a drive?

My GF has the climate control in the car set to the max (28C) and regulates the temperature by turning it on or off.

Part of the reason she hates the auto setting is that if it's not blowing hotter air over her, she feels cold. And she hates feeling cold.

However leave the climate control on a higher setting and the car ends up uncomfortably hot.

For her, the ideal climate control would be one which regulated fan speed rather than air exhaust temperature.

That said, in our BMW i3 the temperature target is a physical knob, easily controlled while driving. So there's that.