we would all be
driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, GM issued a press release stating: "If General Motors 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 down 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.
2006-12-31 03:05:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
like it!!
2006-12-31 03:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Adam 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well for one thing I don't see it as Gates vs. GM but I see it as Ford vs GM in that Ford when he wanted to make money installed all the robots on his manufacturing line and now has other technology, the computer, as well. It's always when someone wants to make more money than they already have that keeps people out of work. Technology has it's good points as well as bad. I'm not sure if that equals out though since there's too much blazing and blasting and tormenting and following as well as too many bored technology people getting into places they shouldn't be and stealing information, spinning it and keeping the world on edge. Actually I'm afraid of #8 because I live in an area where there's lots of water. I'd have to use one of those thing-a-ma-jiggers and smack my front window to get out of my car if I landed in a lake or in tornado or hurricane water. Plus those automated windows can catch a person's long hair and rip off their hair and you'd need lots of stitched in the emergency room. Although I know technology always asks me "do you really want to do this" any time I want something done on the computer but it's super disconcerting because I was brought up working with attorneys in that if you have to ask them a question twice merely asking for confirmation they brissle or get angry or tell you off and you could get fired so my response to my computer asking me "do you really want to do this" is in a screaming tone I respond "I sure as H do". grrr. All I know is that there is a car maker out there insisting on making a car for the blind to drive. So maybe technology has reached its limits.
2016-05-22 23:37:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really to do with cars but once I was on the train and the driver apologised to everyone as they were having problems and would have to restart the train. The lights and everything went off for a minute then came back on so this is something which may happen.
2006-12-31 03:11:28 · answer #3 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, its an old quote from last year. When Bill Gates made his little comment and GM came back with that in really good time.
2006-12-31 03:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by neorapsta 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the problem is not with the car the mecaniks would hav to bee part of the "Geek Squad" an that aint gona hapen
2006-12-31 05:48:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
cars have to be simple just like some of the idiots that dive them
2006-12-31 03:46:57 · answer #6 · answered by Tony 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Woohoo! Love it! I get so frustrated with Microsoft!!!!
2006-12-31 03:15:53 · answer #7 · answered by yowhatdoyouwant 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And the idiots that "dive" computers aren't simple?
2006-12-31 04:06:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And your "question" is....?
This is old news. Let me go back to sleep.
2006-12-31 03:11:07 · answer #9 · answered by pshawfocus 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋