I was watching a programme on A&E. A driver had started his van remotely from outside of his Van. Unfortuneately for him he had left the van in gear and it jumped onto him breaking his thigh. What is remote start,is it legal and why would you possibly need it. It could possibly injure an innocent pedestrian, no mention of this in the programme hence the question.

I thought the post looked familiar.

You asked the exact same question, under another username, a few weeks ago.

www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=119387

Deja vue!

There was a thread on this about 4 weeks ago, do a search.

Actually as Rob says, same question and typo, Perhaps Sammy is a bot.

Edited by 72 dudes on 12/09/2017 at 11:41

I don't know how widespread they were, but a friend in the Middle East had this on his car. The idea was to start it while walking out of the office and give the air con a chance to start cooling things down before he had to sit in it! Given that the car had an auto gearbox, like pretty much everything there, it couldn't have been started in gear. Can't see much point in temperate climates, though.