Guys,I hear what you are saying, but there's nothing in the handbook to say that you should wait. You're right and it takes only a few seconds for it to go thro' it's cycle. But apart from a quick test to show that all the lights and the dials are working, its all theater.
To be honest the computers should be able to cope with the inevitability of a driver not waiting, and I can think of one "madam" that won't , just jumping in selecting neutral, foot on brake turn ignition key to start, seat belt on select drive, handbrake off and off we go. I know I've seen it in action.
We've sent a spacecraft with a computer with less power than a "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" 5 years ago, travelling 1.74 billion miles, to rendezvous with Jupiter,to send photos back right on schedule. T
hose too young to know what a Spectrum ZX is, Wikipedia will explain all.
Are we now saying that the 21st Century French Computers / Electronics in our little cars can't cope?
But we don't want go down that route do we
As to why the Original Posters dash didn't do it's weep etc, maybe its down to the fact his wife did exactly the same as "madam" and probably turned the ignition key to start before the lights and needles did their merry little dance.
I can't see it making that much difference whether you wait or not, but those of a fainthearted disposition regarding French Electrics, myself included, perhaps should wait. Just in case the dashboard should suddenly go up in a puff of a smoke, the airbags go off and the gearbox and engine drop out simultaneously and you be passed by a nun on a bicycle on the M1