Further to Elizabeth's...
 
> At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly
>  compared the computer industry with the auto industry and
>  stated "If GM had kept up with technology as the computer
>  industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars
>  that got 1000 miles/gal."
>
>  Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing
>  the statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash
>  twice a day?"
>
>  1.      Every time they re painted the lines on the road you
>           would have to buy a new car.
>
>  2.      Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no
>           reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
>
>  3.      Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your
>           car to stop and fail and you would have to re- install the
>           engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
>
> 4.      You could only have one person in the car at a time,
>          unless you bought Car95 or "CarNT".  But, then you would have
>          to buy more seats.
>
> 5.      Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the
>          sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to
>         drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
>
> 6.      The Macintosh car owners would get expensive
>         Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars
>          run much slower.
>
> 7.      The oil, gas 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
>          bum.
>
> 9.      The air bag system would say "are you sure?" before
>          going off.
>
> 10.     If you were involved in a crash, you would have no
>           idea what happened.