<story><title>Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Modern cars in the US, especially EVs it seems, are not only dropping AM radio but also now SiriusXM satellite radio. I was shocked to discover that the &amp;quot;Sirius&amp;quot; radio on many cars I have been looking at recently was merely an app that streamed over the cellular connection.&lt;p&gt;I find this mildly terrifying. In an emergency, cellular will be the first to go. It doesn&amp;#x27;t even work reliably when everything is well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;d be fine if Sirius didn&amp;#x27;t require a subscription. The subscription nature turned it into a niche business.&lt;p&gt;(And gosh Sirius&amp;#x27;s salesmen are annoying a-holes when they call you up to get you to subscribe. The last time I bought a car with a Sirius radio I had to insist that I wouldn&amp;#x27;t get any calls from Sirius to subscribe.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Modern cars in the US, especially EVs it seems, are not only dropping AM radio but also now SiriusXM satellite radio. I was shocked to discover that the &amp;quot;Sirius&amp;quot; radio on many cars I have been looking at recently was merely an app that streamed over the cellular connection.&lt;p&gt;I find this mildly terrifying. In an emergency, cellular will be the first to go. It doesn&amp;#x27;t even work reliably when everything is well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>Yea, even if the major space powers Kesslerize all the satellites (like Starlink) in low-Earth orbit, the civilian geostationary sats like Sirius XM will likely be flying. (Geostationary sats can, I think, only be brought down individually with anti-satellite weapons, and that would presumably be prohibitively expensive for all of them.)</text></comment>