7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light. ...

10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department. ...

13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.

I have a Mercedes that has an OFF button for the A/C. Took me way too long to realize it is just a badly named Power button.

Ironically, that last point has come true!

(Though to be fair, the button tends to be labeled both start and stop)

Prophetic