At a recent computer exposition (COMDEX), Bill Gates stated that if General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has that we would be driving $US25 cars that get 1000 miles to the gallon. In response those comments GM issued a press release stating that if they had developed technology like Microsoft we will 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 on the road you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the motorway for no reason and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on. 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 re-install the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought Car95 or CarNT, but then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast etcetera but only have about 2.5% of the accessories, like gold-plated clutch pedals. 7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single general car default warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size hips. 9. The airbag system would say are you sure? before going off. 10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you back in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the cars performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the justice department. 12. Every time GM introduced a new model car, buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You would press the start button to shut the engine. Stop me if youve heard any of the above.