Volvo's "Safety Car" Runs Windows 98

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Haha!  I found it!

I read this in the Amiga One forum ages ago...

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the car industry and stated :
"if Ford had kept up with the 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, Ford Motors issued a press release
stating:

If Ford 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. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you
bought "CarNT",but then you would have to buy more seats.

6. 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
only run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would
all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.

9. The airbag system would ask, "are you sure?" before deploying.

10. 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.

11. Ford would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set
of Rand McNally road maps (now a Ford subsidiary), even though they
neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would
immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.
Moreover, Ford would become a target for investigation by the Justice
Dept.

12. Every time Ford 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.

13. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

14. it wouldn't accept that any other types of car exist

Cool eh?

Cheers,

-zudo