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10 things different

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From: Tony Ashby
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <1sp1xAAIeqbxEwB1@agashby.demon.co.uk>, Tony Ashby
<tony@agashby.demon.co.uk> writes
10 thing different since microsoft
>1.  A particular model year of car would not be available until after
>that year instead of before it.
>
>2.  Every time they repainted the lines on the road you'd have to buy
>a new  car.
> 
>3.  Occasionally your car would just die for no reason and you'd have 
>to restart it.  For some strange reason you'd just accept this.
>
>4.  You could only have one person in the car at a time unless you
>bought a Car 95 or a Car NT.  But, then, you'd have to buy more seats.
>
>5.  Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was powered by the sun,
>would be  twice as reliable and five times as fast - but it would only
>run on 5  percent of the streets and highways.
>
>6.  The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be
>replaced  with a single 'General Car Fault' warning light.
>
>7.  People would get excited about the 'new' features in Microsoft
>cars,  forgetting completely that they had been available on other
>cars for   years.
>
>8.  We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.
>
>9.  The U.S. government would be getting subsidies from an automaker
>instead of giving them.
>
>10. New seats would force everyone to have the same-size butt.
>
>                         "Car & Driver" Feb '96
>

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Tony Ashby  - save space and Bonsai your pets
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