I saw cars with remote start back in the 90's. All manual, in Eastern Europe, where automatic transmission is extremely rare.

Remote start on manual trans cars is very common in Canada. My 2011 wrangler has it from factory.

Lol, manuals can be equipped with remote start too. Hopefully it wasn't left in gear.

I was intrigued by this statement and did some searching. Sure enough it does exist: https://www.compustar.com/blog/can-you-remote-start-a-manual...

> This is accomplished via clutch bypass, reservation mode, and built-in safety features.

I still would never want it... but it's an interesting system.

I had a manual Acura Integra when I was younger and I installed a remote start on it because shops refused to (because it's dangerous af).

Anyways, the clutch pedal simply presses a little button when it is all the way up. All I had to do is bridge the two wires going into that button and it would start without the clutch pressed.

Amazingly I only ever tried to remote start it while in gear once. It retries 3 times so it jumped forward 3 times. About a foot each time, but didn't hit anything thankfully.

I always wanted to add a sensor to the shifter so it'd only bypass the clutch sensor when in neutral, but I never got around to doing it.