The former SAP board member Shai Agassi left the company some time ago to found his startup "Better Place" in order to develop revolutionary concepts for electric cars. Some SAP-colleagues said jokingly, that SAP does indeed have the know-how to build electric cars.
If SAP built an eletric car, it would be like this:
- You need to buy a minimum of 5 cars in licence
- You need at least 1/2 year to adapt your street, garage and parking space to use your SAP ECar
- But you can run it on bicycle tires, train tracks and hula hoop-rings
- The door handles are on the underside of the car
- The steering wheel makes 20 clicking sounds when you turn it, because all 4 tires - including the spare tire - send back multiple messages
- You can see your whole driving record, but not the current street that you drive, because of missing authorizations
- The repair contract was just incrased from 17% to 22% fee, though simple repairs take 2 weeks; but they are available 24/7
- The driver's seat has 250 switches and controls, but because of a bug that will be fixed with SP7 (release date still unknown), the back of the seat is stuck in complete forward position
- The gauge is configurable in km/h, miles/h, steps per seconds, wing bats per millisecond and WARP
- The exchange of the battery can only be done with external consultants, but they are already fully booked for the next 12 months. As workaround you receive a 10 miles long power cord
- The engine is scaled for a Jumbo and has only two settings: Off and Full Throttle
- The brakes react only after 7 seconds because of authorization checks
- But you can scale passengers indefinitely by clustering multiple cars
- The speed is displayed as ABAP-report
- The manual comes as a Powerpoint slide deck