If cars ran like windows

Welch himself stating:. If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent of the roads. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.

GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally a subsidiary of GM , even though they neither need them nor want them. I remember this from the days when I worked for a little start-up company called WordPerfect! Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.

This is absolutely not the first time firefighters have performed this maneuver. It's common enough that it was in the movie Backdraft, and you can find plenty of other examples online—but even so, there seems to be a bit of trend going on with BMW drivers parking in front of hydrants. Draw your own conclusions. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Rule of Law. This content is imported from Twitter.

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The latest engine would have 1 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.

Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own anyroads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free,including IBM. If you still ran old versions of car ie.

CarDOS 6. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrowyour friends, and then copy it. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganize the ignitionfor a few days before it worked. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other. Every time Microsoft 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.

Microsoft would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Automobile Association Road maps now a Microsoft subsidiary , even though they neither need nor want them. There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!