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Congress wants to force AM into every new car for emergency alerts.
The fight over the future of AM radio got a little more heated this week as organizations representing the auto and technology industries told Congress that its plan to mandate this mode of radio wave reception is poorly conceived and will hinder progress.
AM radio has seen almost every other in-car entertainment option come and go—vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs—and it might predate just about everything other than playing "I Spy," but time is catching up with this old broadcast technology. It is starting to get left behind as new models—many of which are electric vehicles—drive off into the sunset, streaming their audio instead of modulating its amplitude.
[...] "As more and more Americans adopt electric vehicles, we must ensure that they are equipped with AM radio. AM radio is—and will remain—an essential communications channel for emergency alerts and for disseminating news and other important information to residents of our district and communities across our country. I am proud to co-lead this bipartisan legislation which would ensure that EVs continue to be equipped with this basic but critical capability," said Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), another co-sponsor.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 24 2023, @08:26PM
Already on the well, and it flows without electricity most of the time, likely will flow a lot better when all the pumps pulling from the aquifer stop pulling.
Location.... not a bad compromise, in a suburbish area of a major metro, livable until the SHTF, and tucked back just far enough off the beaten path that we'll likely hear the gunfire when the horde starts advancing down our driveway (6 other homes before they get to ours).
All in all, I'd much rather vaporize in the flash of a 20MT detonation, but we're a good 80 miles from the submarine base, so in all likelihood we'll instead be witness to the mushroom cloud low on the horizon.
Growing food around here will be a challenge... we've got a little land, but I'm guessing our current halfhearted efforts at gardening have only produced about 20,000 calories on the best year.
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