General Motors addressed this comment by releasing their own statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?", and offered the following comparisons:
- Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
- Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart the car and drive on.
- Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to reinstall the whole engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
- You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy and install more seats.
- Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was perfectly reliable, ran five times faster, and was twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 5% of the roads.
- The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars run much slower, and begin to crash.
- The red "oil", "gas" and "alternator" warning lights would be replaced by a single blue "general protection fault" warning light.
- New seats would force everyone to have the same size butts.
- The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before going off.
- If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what caused it, or what you can do to prevent subsequent crashes from occurring in the future.
And more - When you applied the brakes, a panel on the dashboard would light up saying "Are you sure you want to stop?"
- Sometimes a message would appear on the dash saying " The gearbox cannot access the differential - do you wish to - CONTINUE - RETRY - ABORT ?
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