If Microsoft made a car (Joke in 1997 that came true)

Unfortunately
2, 6, 9 and 10 came true. 5 and 8 can be modified to today and be true.
Maybe 3 as I was reading somewhere that a car would cut out and you would pull over to restart it.

  1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

  2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
    Roads are being repainted so Self Driving cars can navigate easier

  3. 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.

  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. 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.
    A definition of EV’s and their charging network.

  6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single “This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light.
    Single Check Engine Light for Everything.

  7. The airbag system would ask “Are you sure?” before deploying.

  8. 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.
    Things an EV owner has to do to release the charging handle.

  9. Every time a new car was introduced 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.
    This is so true, I’ve had 2 kias with the same layout but the controls act differently.

  10. You’d have to press the “Start” button to turn the engine off."
    We do this now on most new cars.

3 Likes

#4 Actually happened to my family in 1976. Jaguar XJ12L, would die on every left turn, until it died and couldn’t be restarted. Spent more time in the repair garage than our garage, and it was offloaded a few months later.

edit just wiki’d this car, and no wonder…damn thing had 4 carbs…too many stuck floats, and hard to find which carb it was. Might have been more than one! lol

1 Like

My dad would get a kick out of this.