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Ironic, isn't it?
At the Microsoft Global Automotive Summit, Bill Gates told participants that their goal should be a car than can't crash:
Microsoft Corp. mogul Bill Gates and the leader of Ford Motor Co. outlined a future Friday in which software enables cars to fix themselves and avoid accidents.There was no word on whether Microsoft has a similar goal for its operating systems.[...]
Eventually, Gates said, there could be a car that wouldn't let itself crash.
``That absolutely should be the goal,'' Gates told several hundred participants of the Microsoft Global Automotive Summit at the automaker's suburban Detroit campus. ``The embrace of technology will be the key for the leaders of the industry.''
(Link from Techdirt)