[COMP] found this on my Baltimore Linux List & thought some might enjoy it

found this on my Baltimore Linux List & thought some might enjoy it:

Bill Gates reportedly said that if General Motors had kept up with
technology like the computer industry, we
would have $25 cars that go 1,000 miles to the gallon. This apocryphal GM
response explains what would happen if the car had developed like the
computer industry.

1 For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2 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.

3 Occasionally your car would die. You would have to pull over, close all of
the windows, shut down the car,
restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some
reason you would simply accept this.

4 Macintosh would make a solar-powered car that was five times as fast and
twice as easy to drive - but it would
only run on 5 per cent of the roads.

5 The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be
replaced by a single "general protection
fault" warning light.

6 Occasionally your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until
you simultaneously lifted the door
handle, turned the key and grabbed the aerial.

7 The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8 GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand
McNally road maps (now a GM
subsidiary) as well, even though they neither need nor want them.

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.


___________________________________
Mandeep Singh
Sr. Manager Technology Assessment
Systems Architecture
WinStar Telecommunications, Inc.
2350 Corporate Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
(703) 889-2119
(703) 889-1060 fax
masingh@xxxxxxxxxxx

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