On manual cars, Why can’t a car start in a higher gear?

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As the title says, I know that different shifts mean different gear sizes bein used, but I don’t understand why it makes you unable to start moving the car. I have been able to start a couple of cars on the 2nd shift as an experiment and I understand that I could damage the car and I do it just once for testing purposes but I don’t understand why I cannot do so on other shifts. To clarify, I mean start as in start moving the car and not just turning the car on. Thanks

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You can, it’s harder on the car, but my Diesel Opel Astra can start in 3rd if you are carefull enough.

Some old tractors can only start from standing still for all gears because you can’t shift on the go.

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