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Well, there's also the data point that demand is so low the AM radio industry has literally gone to congress and asked to make receivers mandatory.


Consumer demand in populated areas sure, but out in the boonies digital radio doesn’t work as well.

Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Tho none of that is a reason to force auto makers to include AM radio.


> Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Spectrum is a finite, shared resource. Especially these lower frequency bands.


And AM has use as an emergency utility and FM is more accessible than digital radio.


Why do you keep jumping from AM to digital radio? What does that even mean, are you talking about XM? You do know FM exists and is analog, right?


Digital radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio

The commenter with the teslas was saying that AM is dead and FM is nearly dead.




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