The short answer is you really can't do both. You either choose between showing your viewer specific content or letting them have full control. See this discussion and the two others that I link to in my post there for more details.

I should add that it's possible to track objects in full 360 videos but there's obviously no way to guarantee that your viewer will see any of them if they've manually changed their viewpoint. See this disccussion and linked threads.

Thanks for your quick responses @optodata -- it's information I didn't stumble on, so you've been very helpful.

Looking at this in another way, I have 13 clips in this video. Would you recommend I set the start position for each clip facing forward along the road, or does that automatically happen? The camera didn't move throughout all 13 clips, so the front of the GoPro Max was always facing the road. I'm concerned that if I set the start position for each clip and if a viewer is watching in the opposition direction when it changes clips, then they'll be violently dragged back to the forward position. What do you think? Thanks!

PD will set each clip to the default camera view when you place it on the timeline. If that happens to be the view you want, you don't need to take any other steps.

However if it's off to one side or the other, you'll want to use the 360° Start View Setting tool to place that area in front of the viewer.

(It can be tedious to manually put in the same start settings for every clip, so the easiest way to repeat that setting for all the other clips is to actually make a copy of the first clip and paste 12 more many copies on the timeline.

Then drag each new clip one at a time onto the timeline copy and choose Replace so that the new clip inherits the start view settings. Note that you'll need to manually lengthen all the clips that are longer than the "master" clip, since using Replace will automatically trim each clip to the same length as the "master" copy. You're free to change the length of any clip at any time, I just wanted to warn you about the possibility of the ends of longer clips being auto-trimmed.)

As far as planning your viewer experience, each time you place a clip (and if you split a clip into 2 or more sections), you have the opportunity to reframe the center view - but if you align all clips facing the same way there's no transition for the viewer because the individual timeline clips will all become one seamless produced video.

In other words, if the viewer has decided that they want to look out the left window, that's the view they'll keep seeing throught the entire video until and unless they decide to change the view.

Quote ...if the viewer has decided that they want to look out the left window, that's the view they'll keep seeing throught the entire video until and unless they decide to change the view.

You're a wealth of information! Best tidbit I've read, thank you.