You know, when I started thinking about this, I think the addition of such a gadget on cars may CAUSE as many accidents as it saves. Here's why I say this.

Let's say a young driver learns to drive such a stick shift car. They learn to rely on this gadget to keep them from hitting the starter while in gear. THEN as in Dukes case, they get in an older or different car that DOES have the gadget that they have learned to rely on and they have the accident.

My $0.02,