At a recent computer exhibition, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry by stating that if GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars that could achieve 1,000 MPG.
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. 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.
3. New seats would force everyone to have the same size backside.
4. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre 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.
6. The oil, fuel and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car failure" warning light.
7. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
8. If you tried to get your car to a mechanic, you'd make a long distance call, 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 even tried his or her suggestions.
9. Your car owner's manual would have been written by someone for whom English clearly was a second language.
10. 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.
11. The Macintosh car owners would have to get expensive Microsoft upgrades to ride their cars on the rest of the roads, which would make their cars run much slower.
12. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.