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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Well, you definitely can. It will be slow and it will probably stink up your car because of the clutch abuse it takes. But if you’ve got enough experience in a manual, it’s not that hard.

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