[kube-system]

Unless you're driving an antique vehicle, every manual transmission car in the US has a clutch starter interlock.

[chrisseaton]

That's what I said about pressing the clutch isn't it? Just like pressing the brake in many automatic cars.

[kube-system]

If you put someone who has developed their muscle memory driving automatic transmission vehicles behind the wheel of a manual transmission car, they will press the brake and turn the key.

Successfully starting a manual transmission vehicle has two prerequisites:

* knowing that you have to press the clutch in

* identifying the clutch

People without this knowledge lack these prerequisites.