If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics:
- For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice
a day.
- Every time they repainted the lines in the road,
you would have to buy a new car!
- 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.
- 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.
- Only one person at a time could use the car unless
you bought "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 and twice as easy to drive
but would only run on five percent of the roads.
- The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning
lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection
Fault" warning light.
- New seats would force everyone to have the same-
sized butt.
- Rand McNally road maps (Now a GM subsidiary), even
though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this
option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish
by 50% or more.
- Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation
by the Justice Dept.
- 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.
- You'd have to press the "Start" button
to turn the engine off.
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