How things would be different IF Microsoft Built Cars 1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until AFTER that year, instead of before. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this. 4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car '98, but then you'd have to buy more seats. 5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. (Wait a second -- it's that way NOW!) 6. Apple Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as fast, 15 times as reliable, but only ran on 5% of the roads. 7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light. 8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years. 9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas?. 10. The US government would be GETTING subsidies from an automaker, instead of giving them. 11. New seats will force everyone to have the same size butt. 12. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models. 13. IF cars experienced the same technological progress that computers experienced in the last two decades, cars would get 400 miles per gallon, have 40,000 horsepower, cost under $500, and blow up at least once per week killing all occupants. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
