Am in the only one who turns and looks back, out the window?

I had 20 plus rental cars last year and very few had tech features I would ever pay for.

Lane assist with adaptive cruise are the only notable features for long drives. I did enjoy the red dash notification Toyota has. Totally caught me off guard the first time however, I tried out the ABS.

Once I got my first real backup cam, I was instantly sold. I don't blame the regulators from requiring it, because it's such a huge, obvious win. Especially in parking lots, the camera has a vantage point at the back edge of the car that no mirror will give me, so I can see someone walking or driving down the aisle before I start to pull out.

The other thing I'd like to see more or less mandated is blind spot warning. I especially like the kind that is visible to other drivers. I don't even have it on any of my cars, LOL. I just like to see it on other cars that I'm passing.

Lane assist I am ambivalent about. I had AP, it was okay. It does not drive as defensively as I do, however, which meant that it increased my tension on long drives rather than reduce it. I do like good adaptive cruise however. That means no phantom braking :).

That is actually not as good as it sounds. Your body cannot twist a full 180 degrees, so while you can see right behind you and out the passenger side, anything coming from the drivers side is not possible to see.

It takes some getting used to, but once you learn to back via mirrors you won't want to twist around anymore. You do need to check behind the car beforehand because you cannot see directly behind you and thus might hit something on the ground. However you get much better visibility to things that are moving from the side to behind you, and that in my experience is where the danger is most of the time.

I do favor backup cameras though. They show you things you would miss either twisting to look backwards, or looking in the mirror.

Yes, I can see this. If I was ever home to drive my car, I would get used to it I guess. Just turns into a habit and a tool over time.

A child can stand behind my car and looking out the rear window I would not be able to see them. I get more visibility from my backup cameras and radar sensors on my modern cars than I did on my 2000 Accord.

No it doesnt. My subaru has it in the rear view, where it belongs.

It's nice if you don't want a touch screen, but a bigger screen makes a very noticeable difference in how usable the camera feed is.

Toyota had that when I looked at the Tundra in 2012. The image is far too small (postage stamp size) to really see what's there.