Non EFI, but could not resist sharing!!!

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In a message dated 1/18/99 8:10:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, bearbvd at sni.net
writes:

<< Subj:	 Non EFI, but could not resist sharing!!!
 Date:	1/18/99 8:10:32 PM Pacific Standard Time
 From:	bearbvd at sni.net (Greg Hermann)
 Sender:	owner-diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
 Reply-to:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
 To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
 
 
 >>      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 like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
 >> $25 cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
 >>
 >> In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
 >> stating: If GM 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 on the road you would have to buy
 >> a new car.
 >>
 >> 3.  Occasionally your car would die on the freeway 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 reinstall the engine.
 >>
 >> 5.  Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
 >> "Car95" or "Car NT" 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, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 5%
 >> of
 >> the roads.
 >>
 >> 7.  The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be
 >> replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.
 >>
 >> 8.  New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
 >>
 >> 9.  The air bag 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 in until you simultaneously lift the door handle,
 >> turn the key, and grab 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 or want them. Attempting to delete this option would
 >> immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% 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'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.


Hi Greg,
    I culdn't resist either..........The computer industry grows faster than
their marketing and much faster than their testing(debugging) and I never saw
this response from GM but I totally agree it is reasonsible ,,,,,but it also
says something for most of the aftermarket that doesn't release their product
until it's correct(as the OEM's try their hardest to do)....2 cents
-Carl Summers