So population of the USA is about 340M, this claim is just under 1 in 4 people in the USA listen to AM radio. To be honest I haven't listened to the radio in my car in over a decade - am or fm. I do not know anyone that does and I am in the age demographic that would likely listen to a radio rather than stream. Does anyone under 30 or 35 use a radio in their car, I know my child never has in almost a decade of driving.

Well, wait till you live in an area where a widespread emergency happens, like a hurricane, earthquake or wildfires....and you'll see where AM comes in handy.

Pretty much all of the emergency communications infrastructure is built around AM due to its ability to send signals far and away over areas blacked out from other forms of communication.

Cell phones are the first things to go my friend.

Because they're old and old people like AM radio. Plus old people have nothing better to do than call state reps and write snail mail complaints.

Yeah...let's not take into consideration emergency situations and communications...where things like call phones, etc. are knocked out, but AM radio is still on the air.

Nah...disregard the emergency infrastructure built around AM, and those pesky signs along the highway saying things like "for emergency information tune to AM xxx.yy"

Nah....dont' need anything like that, because, HEY...no wide spread emergencies like hurricanes, tornadoes earthquakes or fires happen here...no sir.

And the summary says something about an animation playing too...how the hell am I supposed to see animations on the screen when I'm talking on the phone with it up to my ear...?

Seems stupid all the way around....

If only one group who created a bill that would have increased numbers to help with this problem didnt vote against it because an orange wanted it as a political football.

It was a worthless bill, with no teeth and no real solving of the problems.

It allowed many thousands a day (5K?) before anyone could do any action on closing or limiting border access.

Turn the shit off now....no crossings outside of official checkpoints will be considered, if we catch you outside of there crossing over, you are caught, documented and sent back with a permanent ban on future admission for any reason.

There's a good start....

No it's not. And you know it's not, because you correctly identity the broken asylum system as the problem, and those people aren't sneaking across an undefended border. They're SEEKING OUT Border Patrol officers so they can make their asylum claim.

Some are...some are trying to avoid them.

Whether or not they are crossing and trying to get caught..the border is wide open allowing them the ability to cross at all.

That needs to be stopped, halted as close to 100% as possible.

ONe way to help, make it so that ANYONE caught crossing at any point other than a regular checkpoint, is forever banned from any legal asylum or other legal admission to the US.

No more crossing and trying to find a border guard....you immediately are documented and put back across the border and never allowed in again for any reason for life.

The law entitles you to a HEARING the moment you ask for asylum. Until that hearing occurs you are legally entitled to remain in the country.

Fuck that...it isnt' working, shut it down.

We're "full" and no one is allowed in till we work through the backlog....cross now in any fashion other than us letting you thought a checkpoint....you're put back across the border, no exceptions and banned from future legal entry.

Time to shut the border DOWN.

Any asylum claims can and should be made in the first country they cross into....so stay in MX...no more crossing multiple country borders to get to the US, you can seek asylum in one of those countries before the US.

Economic problems are not an asylum criterion.

Then perhaps all those hotels, golf courses, landscaping companies, restaurants, home builders, construction companies, meat packing plants, farmers, ranchers, wineries and who knows who else, stop hiring them. Problem solved.

I agree!!

Many of them are fleeing their countries in S. and C. America because climate change has upended their way of life. I wonder who's responsible for this climate change? Who could that be? Why America, that's who. Welcome the newcomers, educate them, train them, and stop fucking whining about it.

1. Not my fucking problem.

2. Still not a valid asylum admission value even if it is a factor.

3. The US is not the only country in the world that pollutes....and we're making huge strides against it.

That, plus the likelihood that said Indian workers are pretty unlikely to show up to occupy the corporate offices with purple hair and some bullshit entitled complaint.

And when they need a doctor and dentist because bread and jam are not particularly good choices for a staple diet (if you have another option), those with money will cluck about how it's their own fault for making such a poor nutritional choice.

Government services are supplied through the internet now. Many schools post homework on the internet and require students to use it. The kids DO have a right to public education. You might recall a spot of trouble we had in 2020 where internet based teleconferencing became the only way to attend school, for example. You can argue all you want about how effective that was, but since it was the only option at the time, it would be hard to argue that it wasn't better than nothing. Are you prepared to fund the schools and other government agencies going back to 100% paper?

Welcome to the 21st century. We've been waiting for you.

For me, the last time was when temperatures were dipping below freezing and a rain/snow mix was starting to fall. I needed to know about driving conditions. Real time observations from the traffic copter were quite useful.

Because AM radio is a key part of the emergency broadcast system and also plays an important role in disseminating information for more localized emergencies. By including an AM radio in every car, they make sure that pretty much everybody will be able to get information in an emergency.

They manage OK in an ICE vehicle with it's spark gaps, alternator, electric radiator fans, etc.. Add in a buck converter or 2 for the in-dash display and the USB jack, power door locks, power window motors. Then there's the computer for the in-dash display.

NAH, they just wanted to cheap out and lat the marketing department claim a slightly larger usable trunk space.

An ICE vehicle has between 4 and 8 spark gaps under the hood. Note that spark gaps used to be used as a central element of an AM transmitter.