Ford Relents; Restores AM Radio

After the news got out that Ford was planning to remove AM radio from their vehicles, they got an earful from both consumers and politicians. Congress introduced the AM For Every Vehicle Act requiring car manufacturers to include AM as standard equipment, citing its use in emergency communications. While the FCC and the radio industry is all for the act, the auto industry believes it is shortsighted.

Ford had dropped AM from their 2023 Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning electric pickups, and had planned to drop AM from all 2024 models. But now they have reversed that decision. 

But that's just Ford. Other car manufacturers have either already dropped, or plan to drop, AM radio in their electric vehicles, citing both a low rate of usage and possible interference in the signal from the electric motors. -via Boing Boing ​

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