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."

General Motors recently responded to this comment by releasing the
statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?

Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have  to buy a
new car.

Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would
just accept this, restart and drive on.
 
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail
and you would have to reinstall the engine.  For some strange reason, you
would accept this too.

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.

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.

The Macintosh car owners would purchase expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single
'general fault' warning light.

New seats would force everyone to have the same size butts.

The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before going off.

If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what
happened.
  
If you tried to get your car to a mechanic, you'd make a long distance call
and be put on hold for three or four hours; when you finally got the
mechanic, you'd be told how to fix it yourself, and the mechanic would hang
up before you'd even tried his suggestions. 

Your car's owner's manual would have been written by someone for whom
English clearly was a second language.

And, for all that, the press would refer to us as 'innovators.'"