Bill Gates vs. Toyota
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Loading ...t a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
“If Toyota had kept up with 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, TOYOTA issued a press
release stating:
If Toyota 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 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. 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 run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning
lights would all
be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An
Illegal Operation”
warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before
deploying.
8. 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.
9. Every time a new car was introduced 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.”
10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the
engine off.
