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.
You would just accept this, restart the car 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 "CarNT". 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 five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature 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 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 lifted the door handle,
turned 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.
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