"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 percent of the roads.
7. The oil, the 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 air bag 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 map (now a GM
subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete
this option would immediately cause the car’s performance to diminish 50% or
more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice
Department.
12. Every time 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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