At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly
compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry
has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got
1000 miles per gallon."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the
statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a
day?"
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have
to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to
stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For
some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless
you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy
more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would
only run on five percent of the roads, and cost twice as much.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft
upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much
slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced
by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
happened.
