If Microsoft made cars...

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If Microsoft made cars...


In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating (by Mr Welch himself, The GM CEO):  If GM had developed
technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the
following characteristics:

 1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.

 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to
    buy a new car.
 
 3. Occasionally  your  car would die on the freeway for no reason, 
    and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause
    your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would 
    have to reinstall the engine.

 5. Only  one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
    "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.

 6. Macintosh  would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
    five times  as  fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run 
    on five per cent of the roads.

 7. The oil, water temperature 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. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
    and refuse  to  let  you  in  until  you simultaneously lifted the 
    door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
    Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they 
    neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option 
    would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or 
    more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the 
    Justice Department.

12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn
    how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
    operate in the same manner as the old car.

13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.


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