It's still a thing. The BBC are still broadcasting radio 4 longwave (oh it's now the same as the normal one, so less test cricket and shipping forecasts). LBC do medium wave round London certainly and there's a bunch of others. Usual scattering of pop, desi and so on.

If you drive anywhere in the arse end of nowhere you get radio 4 longwave (also really cricket doesn't lose that much on the radio), but you can get quite a lot of FM drops and of course bugger all mobile reception.

I don't own a car so my driving is skewed heavily towards places I need to hire a car to get to, so there's probably more arse and of nowhere than average.

Also the odd MW channel.

Ah the crying emoji.

I saw recently someone confuse the crying emoji with the tears of laughter emoji. The sent it on my road's Whatsapp group in response to a message that sometime died.

Kiiiinda but if a single things was done to fuck his immune system then that isn't an especially unlikely series of events to follow

Nonetheless some agencies prefer to simply kill someone off in a car crash. The 9mm holes in the head being from the steering wheel. There's also the old favorite of committing suicide by shooting yourself twice in the back of the head with a rifle.

The number comes a Nielsen report.

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.

1) The point of the legislation is not what consumers do after they buy the car. This is specific what manufacturers must provide. A consumer could swap out their antilock brakes after purchasing it; but that does not negate that manufacturers must install them with the stock model. 2) The main issue these days is AM radio requires more shielding due to more electronics like sensors and EM interference especially in EV cars. The problem is not the stereo unit being replaceable but the design of the car like the wiring.

Yes the OP is trying to read the law as tortured as possible to find loopholes. That is unlikely to pass muster. "Hey the new law said I had to have safety glasses for my workers. I put them in a locked cabinet and I have the only key. But I complied with the law . . ."

Your reading of the law is a tortured one of trying to find a loophole. Of course it should be an effective antenna; otherwise, there would be no need for the law especially when it comes to safety mandates. That's like arguing mandates on air bags and antilock brakes does not require them to be "effective". Manufacturers could install whatever they wanted. Whether they worked or not; that's not in the law.

Well's that's like saying new laws requiring air bags to be in cars do not require them to be "effective". It's not like consumers and countries would object to ineffective airbags.

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.

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.

Yep. The rotting carcass of HP is still lumbering zombie like through the world trying to feast on brains and inkjet ink scams.

I had one of those! AM and FM! Best tech the 80s had. I have a vague memory it used the headphones as an ad hoc FM antenna, and had a slide switch on the side so you could use the built-in speaker while the headphones were plugged in.

Okey dokey I know you're are a physics and reality denying moron but I'll play

It's this radio:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/...

But go on do tell me how this radio has a 1 yard long antenna...

Also has it not occurred to you that radio stations can simultaneously stream online and broadcast on AM at the same time? It's not alien magic voodoo...

Glad my sig is still trolling you. When you stop denying that kinetic energy well approximated by a half m v^2 at noon relativistic velocities then I can explain to you. But until that point there is no hope of you ever grasping why your love of propulsion scams is doomed.

I particularly live how you switched smoothly from the EM drive (which didn't work) to the new electrostatic drive (which doesn't work). I saw another one where some crank claimed he could generate net thrust with a propeller in a closed box. Would you like me to dig that one out too so you have something to get excited about when the EM drive successor is also proven to be fake?

Another dead Boeing whistleblower? I don't believe in coincidences.