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 DannyB on Saturday May 27 2023, @10:47PM
If you have a Java program that requires a very specific runtime version, then I would blame the developer. It seems that the developer would have to go out of their way to make a Java program depend on a specific runtime.
As for browsers, it was a bad idea to allow any third party executable extensions such as:
* Java Applets
* Flash
* Microsoft ActiveX
* Microsoft Silverlight
I have also seen web sites that were written to very specific browsers and versions.
In the early 2000s a lot of sites coded to specifically IE, and then IE 6.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.