Normally I agree with your assessments, but this one I find confusing at best. Why not reason that if you want air conditioning to be running, you activate it and if you do not, you push "off". I don't see why you would add more complexity to it than that??? Chrysler did incorporate in the 1970 - 72 models at least (maybe earlier ones too) a time delay using a restart module mounted on the "heater box" in the engine department on startups to avoid fogging the windows.
The 1973 system was a one year only at best and a screw up IMO unless it somehow carried over into some of the formals and I was unaware of it? Some nervous nellie in the interior heating/cooling department was overly concerned about instantly fogging up the windshield under certain temperature/humidity conditions by turning on the compressor at just the wrong time. The life and durability of the RV2 compressor and the air conditioning systems in general was already challenged with just using them normally. Idle quality using that RV2 compressor was poor at best compared to GM vehicles for example too (which used more advanced rotary compressors) - why put up with it when you don't need to??
I actually visited the department handling vehicle interior cooling systems at the time within the Highland Park Engineering center when I started working there in 1969 and asked them why Chrysler was so behind the times in continuing to use that RV2 compressor and the only answer I got was an embarassed reply from their chief cooling expert that it had more "capacity" than the rotary compressors for such tasks as rear a/c units in station wagons - that same compressor dated back into the late 50s. That department felt like "sleepy hollow" - not really much of a competitive spirit at all. Very disappointing and it cost Chrysler a huge number of sales when you compared their systems in the 70s to what GM was doing. Night and day.
