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The requirements for a new vehicle to become a sales success go beyond the emission and safety compliances, low fuel consumption and attractive design. The market is constantly more demanding for innovative features that either solve a well-known problem or offer solution for matters that make the user's life simpler. All conditions above must be achieved in the most economic way, since the price of the car defines its competitiveness. The hill start in manual or automated manual transmission vehicles is faced by most users as inconvenient situation. In the time interval between brake pedal releasing and gas pedal pressing, the car might roll backwards, causing an unsafe or at least uncomfortable situation. The device currently presented offers a simple solution that assists the driver in such situation, keeping the vehicle stopped while the driver releases the brake pedal and requests enough engine torque to safely start in hill condition.