I’d guess this has a negligible impact and automakers design their ignition for the stresses of this system.
It’s a warm start versus a cold start so the engine is at temperature with the fuel system fully primed, these cars use batteries with an AGM chemistry that’s more tolerant of abuse, and use reinforced starters.
It should be fine. 
I’m less sanguine about it. Most of the failures would happen out past the end of warranty so the manufacturers are perfectly happy to repair and profit.
That certainly used to be true (I had to replace the starter on my Ford Falcon a couple of times) but I’m not sure if that’s still the case for the starters on modern cars that are designed for frequent engine starts, such as hybrids. My Prius has over 200,000 miles on it and I haven’t had to replace the starter yet. 
(Although I did have to replace an inverter cooling pump last week…)
It’s still a problem on a lot of newer cars. I’ve seen it on Subarus and Toyotas (probably using the same parts bin), BMWs, Audis, and Jeeps. I wonder if it’s related to engine mass. I could see vehicles with smaller engine mass wearing starter motors much slower than vehicles with larger engine mass.
My story: When the starter on my old 2002 Camry began giving me problems, a tech at my job suggested that I gently tap the “dead” starter with the non-metallic handle end of a screwdriver to free-up the stuck solenoid. It worked! That got me out of trouble a couple of times while waiting for a new starter.
That can help temporarily. And often the starter doesn’t need replacement, just the solenoid. That doesn’t help most drivers, though, when their car doesn’t start and the mechanic ends up charging them $$$ for a new starter instead of $50 for a new solenoid.
Yep!
Random rant:
I enjoyed the film Hidden Figures which was about the important role that black women like Katherine Johnson played in the Apollo program. But technical nonsense in the opening scene had me so frustrated that I almost didn’t watch the rest of the movie.
It started out showing Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and others stranded on the side of the road with a dead car, worried that they’d be late for work at NASA. Vaughn climbed under the car to fix it, declaring that the starter was dead. Moments later she used a screwdriver to “bypass the starter” and was able to start the vehicle to continue on their way.
I get what the writer was trying to do, demonstrating the resourcefulness of these brilliant women, but I hate to see that kind of mistake in a movie that focuses so much on smart technical people. Especially if they’re real people.
The James R. Barker is a very popular ship. Her horn is wonderfully loud, and the port crowds always look forward to hearing The Barker Bark, as it is known.
This one’s long, but has much to recommend it.
“Salties” like Asian Spirit are nothing like the typical lakers, for one.
She has a ahem cool cargo of wind turbine blades.
I love seeing ships from diff angles, which is much easier for Duluth Harbor Cam[s] than individual youtubers.
Her horn is hysterical, esp compared with The Barker Bark!!!
I also love seeing the tugboats, and watching them doin’ their thing!
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Assuming Grift Force One would be kitted out to match the current presidential VC-25s,
“It wouldn’t be in the air before 2030 at the earliest, long after he’s left office and probably later than the existing planned replacements,” said [Richard] Aboulafia [managing director of aircraft consultancy AeroDynamic Advisory]. “It makes no sense on any level, except that he wants a free 747 for himself. Nothing else makes any sense.”
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“What’s sort of annoying about the whole thing is I’m not sure what’s wrong with the current Air Force One,” Aboulafia said. “Maybe if they gave it a gold makeover, he’d like it more.”
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“ The engine has been torn apart and re-built from the ground up to handle mega boost, pushing the horsepower output up from the stock car’s 140-ish to a mind-melting namesake 500 ponies to the front wheels.”
Amazing — the lack of barriers, the small crowds, the lack of advertising covering every square millimeter of the track, cars, and drivers. Yet still completely recognizable as the Monaco GP circuit.
I’m sure they meant bypass the solenoid which you could easily do with a screwdriver to hot-wire a car of that era. I’m assuming the screenwriters dumbed it down some.
I’m less confident that the screenwriters knew what it even means to bypass a solenoid. You almost certainly wouldn’t do that by reaching up from underneath an old car, because the solenoid on old cars is typically accessible from above, closer to the battery. And like I said a bad solenoid or starter doesn’t cause an already-started car to break down as it’s driving down a highway. The scene reminded me of a different nonsensical scene I saw in a bad TV show where a couple of young women had their car overheat and strand them on a desert highway. A hot dude comes along and saves the day by announcing that they’ve got a bad fan belt, and quickly fixes it (out of camera view) by replacing it with a fashionable belt that one of the young women was wearing. The car started right up (apparently getting all the boiled-off coolant back?) and continued on its way.
When screenwriters show stuff like that off-camera I usually just assume that they either don’t trust their own ability to convey what is happening to the audience, or (more likely) they don’t actually understand it themselves. Or maybe they just don’t care if it makes sense, which I find lazy and disrespectful if you’re making a serious movie about really smart, real people.
But I’ve ranted too much on this.
[Edit to add: turns out that I misremembered the details of that scene. She did the screwdriver trick from the top side.]
Depends on the car, really. Ford cars had the solenoids right on top of the firewall by the engine making it dead simple to hotwire a car once you got the hood open. GM vehicles had the solenoid integrated into the starter and to get to it you would need to crawl under the vehicle to get to the underside of the bell housing where everything was located. (It’s been years since I saw Hidden Figures so I have no idea what kind of car they were in during this scene.)
Fun fact: because of that GM starter/solenoid design, which was right next to the engine and exhaust manifolds/headers, they could easily suffer from heat soak and just not work when the engine was hot. A common modification was to bypass the solenoid integrated into the starter by … installing a Ford solenoid under the hood away from the hot bits. I used to have a 1968 Firebird and would run into this frequently where the car would start up just fine when cold, but after parking it, I’d be stranded until everything cooled down. I weighed the risk of my car being stolen against being stranded every time I parked the vehicle and decided the 20 minutes of effort to do this modification was totally worth it.
The search for an armored wagon didn’t end there. The representative for Gates reportedly asked a Volvo dealership whether a 240 could be bulletproofed, and somewhat surprisingly, the answer was “yes.”
It could be that all Volvo 240s are just simply made bulletproof.