3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on. This happened numerous times with my Chevrolet Celebrity, and no GM or shade tree mechanic could ever figure it out.
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. This is a misleading statement also; I remember numerous times when several of us were sitting around playing Leisure Suit Larry. Of course, just like a car, only one person could drive the computer at one time. And just like in the car, everyone of them would tell the driver what to do!
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. Don't forget, that only Ralph Nader and other members of the Green Party would be allowed to drive it.
7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. This is no longer a true comparison, with all the self-correcting, debugging features put in windows.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size rear end. This also isn't a valid comparison, since windows has so many flexible ways for setup.
9. The air bag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. And don't forget, it would then come back and say afterwards, "Are you really, really sure?"
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. This is also no longer valid. As a user, I find it extremely easy to go back and forth between Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT, and Windows ME. However, if I were the "mechanic", that's probably not the case, but it's likely not any more difficult than having to work with different GM systems on newer versions of the same cars, or on different models, such as Pontiacs, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, Buicks, and Oldsmobiles.
14. This was not one, but, the service requirements on the automobile would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles before any parts had to be replaced [The number of error-free calculations made by a computer is phenomenal!]
I have found occasionally that the "self-correcting" features in XP will detect when you have replaced a defective part, and automatically re-install the old part.