According to insider's sources, Bill Gates recently compared the computer industry with the auto industry, stating that if "GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
Sure, "but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" responded General Motors, making the following points in a public statement sent to insider:
2. Your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Sometimes 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.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you'd 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 per cent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive upgrades, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator 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 ask, "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. When you crash, you have no idea what happened.
This artical is an excerpt form Computing Canada, April 20th 1998