What would cars be like if they’d mirrored the technology advancements of our laptops and desk top PC’s?

At a conference last year Bill Gates allegedly stated that

 ‘If GM motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry had, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.’

Hmmm interesting… GM of course had a lot to say about this… here’s a few ‘gems’ from their press release:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
•         For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash…….. twice a day.
•         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.
•         Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre 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.
•         Apple 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.
•         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.

We wonder what Bill Gates thought as he reads this response and what can we learn from this?…
..maybe it’s when choosing someone to spar with make sure they’ll help you look good? or always engage brain before talking? Or put yourself in others’ shoes and imagine what they might say in response to you?

Maybe it’s all three..!

Craig is off to re – boot his car as it’s just frozen and no matter what he pushes or pulls it just will not do a thing and keeps playing the same song over and over again on the stereo.