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I agree with Bill Gates, the goverment had to force the car manufactures to improve gas mileage and forced them to make them safer and cleaner. I remember back in the 60's when Ford was fighting the installation of seat belts, said nobody would pay the extra money for them and they wouldn't sell any cars, how many lives have they saved? Jim N87349 Pete Thomson wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the > way > computers have enhanced our lives, read on. > At a computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer > industry with the car industry and stated "If General Motors > had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would > all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." > In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release > stating: "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 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, 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." > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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