Bi-partisan bill would require auto makers to keep AM radios in cars

More Government Control just what we desperately need lol

It’s time to move on from am

They can force them to put an AM radio in the car, but they can't force me to listen to it.

I wonder if my 2010 has AM. I don't even know...

I have no issue with AM existing in cars at all. I have issue with Government sticking their sticky fingers in regulating it. Furthermore, last time I checked, there are far more pressing matters at hand than this...

AceHanlon said:

I have no issue with AM existing in cars at all. I have issue with Government sticking their sticky fingers in regulating it. Furthermore, last time I checked, there are far more pressing matters at hand than this...

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Indeed. I'd prefer automakers keep AM radio, but I don't want the government mandating it either.

Until there is some serious emergency and high tech fails…

Like EMP bombs...
Anything with solid state electronic stops, except for tube circuits...
Think about that!!
Only old tube radios would work, if you had a simple generator.
Or battery powered!

It takes 60 votes to clear the Senate. Thats why it wasn’t done last year.

AceHanlon said:

I have no issue with AM existing in cars at all. I have issue with Government sticking their sticky fingers in regulating it. Furthermore, last time I checked, there are far more pressing matters at hand than this...

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There are, but this is low hanging fruit. That's the only thing congress tackles. They're never going to touch anything that requires hard decisions. There's reason why they kick the can down the road on social security. If they cut it, most of their voting block will be upset, older folks. If they extend the retirement age, younger folks will be upset. If they make one pay longer on your wages until it drops off, higher wage earners will be upset. None of these will ever happen until the payments are about ready to stop. Just like the debt ceiling joke.

Yes we want AM radio.

voiceofstl said:

Yes we want AM radio.

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How much extra would you pay for it?

I listen to 84 WHAS for morning traffic.

Interesting. No radio stations in my area 'power down', ever.
As discussed, it would be ineffective as a national alert system, since almost everyone who listens only does so in their car (that's what this discussion is about), which, for the average person, is only 1% of the time. Cell phones would be far, far more effective, since most people have them, and have them with them, turned on, almost all the time.

Bob Lincoln said:

Interesting. No radio stations in my area 'power down', ever.
As discussed, it would be ineffective as a national alert system, since almost everyone who listens only does so in their car (that's what this discussion is about), which, for the average person, is only 1% of the time. Cell phones would be far, far more effective, since most people have them, and have them with them, turned on, almost all the time.

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It's not a one technology thing, it is all of the above for warning systems.

David S said:

It's not a one technology thing, it is all of the above for warning systems.

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Still not used enough, enough hours of the day, to justify mandating it for that reason.

Yeah, a warning like: "INCOMING! KISS YOUR A$$ GOODBYE!"