If Microsoft Built Cars

oddlyaromatic

An worthwhile oldie from http://www.4degreez.com.


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 technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."

Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"

Not only that, but....

Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver wouuld cause your car to stop an fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
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.
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.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

conical

...and you'd have to press the "start" button every time you wanted to switch it off!

oddlyaromatic

A car doesn't have a start button. What the hell are you talking about?

Squirrel

oddlyaromatic wrote:

A car doesn't have a start button. What the hell are you talking about?

This is the from a Maclaren SLR



Jokes an oldie but still good.

Chalk

Squirrel wrote:

This is the from a Maclaren SLR



Jokes an oldie but still good.

ill check my mclaren when i get home,
jeeves usually warms it up for me before i take it out

oddlyaromatic

Damn. My **** is so ruined.

netwhizkid

Yeah thats funny alright !

Regards netwhizkid

de5p0i1er

LOL. How very true.

Capt'n Midnight

But hey, any time there was a problem all you would need to do is get everyone out of the car, then everyone get back in and away you go again*

*and a service every month