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From: Vitaly Greenberg <vitaly@ctp.co.il>
To: Mesh <meshulam@ctp.co.il>; Alik <albertv@amil.co.il>; Eugeny Greenberg
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Date: יום ראשון 19 יולי 1998 09:52
Subject: Fw: $25 car


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>From: moshe karako <mosh_k@ctp.co.il>
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>Date: Sunday, July 19, 1998 9:37 AM
>Subject: $25 car
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>>At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
>>computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM kept up with
>>technology like the computer industry has, we would be driving $25 cars
>>that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
>>
>>In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
>>stating: "If GM 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 on the road, you would have to
>>buy a new car.
>>
>>3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and
>>you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
>>
>>4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause
>>your car to shut down and refuse to start, 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. Apple 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 5% 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 airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before deploying.
>>
>>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, turn the key, and grabbed 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 nor 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.
>>
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------------
>>Moshe Karako                          CTP Systems LTD.
>>R&D
>>Tel:  +972 3 926 0004
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