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Its amazing what youngsters can learn but it does not mean they can do it properly. When my eldest son was just over 3 years old my wife on returning from a shopping trip left him in the car whilst she opened the house door. He was strapped into a child seat in the back. In less than 10 seconds he undid his seat belts, got onto the driver's seat started the car and got the car into drive. When my wife heard the car start she turned round to see car being driven away by my son standing on the seat. Fortunately he steered into the drive wall before getting onto the highway. The car was a 1988 3.6 Jaguar and unlike more modern automatics it did not have a park interlock on the foot brake.