AM-Radio könnte in Neuwagen gesetzlich vorgeschrieben werden
https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-oft-forgotten-am-radio-became-a-legislative-lightning-rod
AM-Radio könnte in Neuwagen gesetzlich vorgeschrieben werden
https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-oft-forgotten-am-radio-became-a-legislative-lightning-rod
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The fight over whether AM radio should still be in cars is now in the news again. There’s a bill in congress pushing the matter, but automakers are pushing back over, of course, cost. Suppose the real question is whether it’s still necessary. Know some automakers have done a work around via streaming, but that’s not going to cut it in an emergency situation. Though, would this generation even know that you can tune into AM radio for emergency situation updates? That’s really what should be asked.
Is this a republican thing to keep talk radio in cars?
Just build a cheap AM radio USB dongle that comes with all new cars that we can throw in the trash.
Noone in this thread understands why exactly AM is useful in cars, or has thought about how emergency communication works
AM is too ubiquitous and reliable to do away with, not much else will still be so useful in the event of something truly catastrophic
Isn’t there problems with EV batteries messing with the AM signal. Like there is extra stuff they have to do to ground things so you can get an AM signal, that’s why EVs usually don’t have it?
1610 kHz is used for local travel alerts. If you’re driving in the California Sierra mountains, this is sometimes the only information you have about unexpected road closures and detours. There is no long-range reception.
$70 for an AM radio is a lie, unless that’s the cost of them fixing their own interference problems. Modern software defined radios are dirt cheap and their digital signal will integrate with a digital console.
it feels like corporatism and profit motive is going to extract every last common good from US society to the point that people will start selling their own teeth for the mineral content in order to make the rent.
having access to free emergency broadcast information in a moving vehicle is extremely important, and ‘cost’ is a bullshit reason to get rid of it.
If it ends up being true, Rivian is in for a shit storm
Somehow someone making money of this. Otherwise congress would not care.
This makes a ton of sense. There are lots of emergency broadcasts on AM. Heck, there are dangerous roads with signs like „Tune to AM 123 for the next 30 miles for warnings“. And I’m pretty sure it cost manufacturers like 50 cents to put radio into a car.
I would much rather that they ban subscription services in cars or mandate important car functions be tied to physical knobs/dials/levers and not touch screen interface.
If its good enough for the billionaire bunkers, its good enough for my kia.
To much mandatory crap
No wonder cars are $50k+ for base models
Is it even a requirement to have a radio at all? I remember when that was extra equipment you paid for.
Also, AM radio is very low electrical frequency, very similar to the electronics of cars. The problem is not the $0.10 receiver chip. The problem is designing and adding filtering to everything in the car (including electric/hybrid drivetrains) so that they don’t drown out that chip which is literally a few feet away.
It would probably cost several thousand dollars to do; more for electric cars, less for ICE. Maybe this is a boondoggle by the fossil industry to roadblock the shift to electric?
Plus AM radio has been that sweet sweet pipeline for conservative radio hosts to capture blue collar work sites for years. Where would Rush have been without AM? Still dead but not as much of a cancer on society as he was.