If Microsoft Made Cars....(Part II)

[Orangeman]

Here's a revised version of the list: "If Microsoft Made Cars..."

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
the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
$25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating the following:

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 in the road, you would have to buy a
new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would
have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut
off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your
car to shut own and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to
reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five
percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be
replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying.
8. 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 grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to
drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same
manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.


PS> I have no comment as to the veracity of these supposed remarks, just that they are funny as hell.

[drewmaztech]

An oldie but goodie!

Don't forget your car would stop and randomly pick up hitch hikers and not bother to tell you.

The security system consists of...well... nothing.

[PuterGeekGirl]

And patches would need to be applied quite frequently, often resulting in yet another restart....

[Archangel42069]

Originally posted by PuterGeekGirl
And patches would need to be applied quite frequently, often resulting in yet another restart....

Don't forget that many of those patches would disable your car as well and you would have to borrow your neighbor's car to drive all the way to the plant just to figure out how to fix the problem.....