Yet at the same time, AM radio antennas disappear and hardly anyone even notices that the transmitter is no longer in the air. That 82 million number is just pulled out of thin air.
Who is "they"? My last three cars had satellite radio capability but aside from a few e-mail/snail mail nags, nobody ever tried to push it on me, wasn't even mentioned by the salesperson that sought every other opportunity (extended warranty, dealership financing, blah, blah, blah) to make himself some extra bank.
Then your experience is not the same as others. Every car purchase I have experienced at a dealership, they tried to push satellite. That includes myself, family, and friends.
It absolutely adds cost and complexity to the design of a modern day automobile. Effective AM antennas are not exactly small and you have to incorporate one into the design of your vehicle in a way that minimizes interference (much harder with EVs) without ruining the aesthetics of the vehicle. If that was as easy and cost free as you think there'd be no incentive to remove it in the first place, your tinfoil hattery notwithstanding.
Yes and no. The aesthetics issue was solved decades ago by the putting the antenna on the rear window where it blends in with the rear defrost wires. The issue these days is the EM interference especially on EV vehicles. To a lesser extent, ICE cars have more sensors and cameras which could contribute to EM interference. There will be additional cost to shield the radio signal.
Now, the additional cost isn't really all that significant in the grand scheme of a five digit automobile, but the margins on non-luxury automobiles aren't huge, and if you're thinking like an MBA asshat and multiply the individually insignificant cost savings by the millions of automobiles you hope to sell...
The problem is there is new cost in an older technology where it is difficult to pass the new cost onto the consumer. Consumers in the past could be persuaded that cars should cost more with additional features as air bags and antilock brakes cost more. They are not likely to accept that AM radio which had been working for decades now costs more. Also this law makes subscriptions difficult for the manufacturers to implement. If they thought they could just tack on subscriptions like heated seats, there would be outcry.
Every modern OS will index the CONTENT of documents along with the FILENAME.
Well that's a lie. I can save text in a plain text file in Windows and Windows Search does not know anything but the filename. I just did it. Care to fib about something else?
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928
