Warming up the car isn’t for the benefit of the car, it’s for the benefit of ME.
It is true that an engine will warm up faster under load, but there’s more to it than that. The windshield, for one, needs defrosting when a car is parked outside.
Second, I don’t care whether something so trivial is illegal. Laws are for suckers, amply demonstrated in the last several decades.
Blow me.
Is there an answer on any new cars with remote start, that the IT people could install program that would allow remote start but lock the transmission. Some cars now have electronic steering, why not lock those out, for remote start?
Probably not now but why not?