There is absolutely no safety benefit to having an AM radio built into your car. I could not have been clearer about that in my post. There is absolutely nothing a car's AM radio can do that an emergency AM radio in the back of your trunk can't do just as well or better.

The only reason to insist on having AM radio in a car is so people can listen to it while they're driving. Either for political reasons because billionaire right-wing extremists have taken over AM radio and have for some time or just plain old economics because a bunch of people make their living off of a captive audience of people driving places in a car.

So you can fuck off with your straw man argument that because I'm a left winger I should always back government regulation that appears to be for safety on the face of it. There's this magical thing called nuance that can be used to make decisions that are more complicated than black and white. You ought to try it sometime. But being a right winger you're probably physiologically incapable. I mean that. Multiple studies have shown that right wingers have overactive fear responses and while it's possible to train that out of them our civilization does the exact opposite. So it's all about the knee jerk reactions.

It is kind of funny that you follow my posts enough that you recognize me and know I am a left winger. I frankly have no idea who you are I can only tell that you're a right winger based on the particulars of your post and the rather nasty tone in it. It's that overly high and mighty tone that right winger is always take combined with the love of discovering hypocrisy without actually understanding what hypocrisy is enough that you could figure out that there wasn't any actual hypocrisy in my position. Did you vote Trump all three times or just the two when there was a woman up on the ticket?

Your faith in high frequency radio is touching. Cell phones a line of sight. AM radio is not so limited. It works much better in the mountains.

Every accusation is a confession with you lot. People whine about imaginary problems? Fed up of being told you are a bad person for your beliefs?

Good luck with this. Shaming people for being fat worked so well, I'm sure belittling them will get them to have more kids too. It certainly worked when people pointed out the deficiencies in your behaviour.

I would think that Teslas get stolen far less often because they are difficult to sell and difficult to turn into parts and, on top of that, you have to do a lot of work to disable all the electronics in there. Hence not an effect that would transfer to any external cameras.

Also, who would want a bad-quality space-NAZI car anyways?

The main problem is that the police does not really care about cars getting stolen.

I think you have a problem counting there. No, most hardware is NOT involved in booting.

For special-purpose, there are better things. For example, for teaching the Big Blue Button is quite a bit superior IMO. I have used it last semester with no issues at all. But it is not really suitable for more general use. For example, it requires you to schedule meetings and upload your slides before. That is fine for teaching, but does not work so well in many other situations. It also uses LibreOffice to convert PP slides to PDF, but since my teaching slides are LibreOffice anyways, I had zero problems.

That said, a Teams replacement does not have to be better. It just has to be about equal or not too much worse and it has to not be made by an US company or a company beholden to any other authoritarian regime.

In order to get the numbers that they want it they have to include break-ins not just thefts. Yeah 24/7 surveillance will make it easier to catch somebody who steals your car. We won't do it of course because why the fuck would we but it does make it easier.

But you can't get the numbers from the study with just stolen cars and if somebody breaks into your car no having all that surveillance isn't really going to help. It doesn't help that they know your license plate when your window gets broken in.

As for why the drop in crime besides the fact that crime is way down and keeps going down right around this time the police did a huge huge push going after car break-ins. A shitload of manpower was put to the task that's all this is. Yeah if you want to spend a boatload of money on police to keep your car from being broken in you can do that but the window is going to be a lot cheaper than the taxes you're going to pay for the army of cops needed to enforce that law at the level they're at.

Incidentally they won't be able to keep this up forever so eventually the crime numbers will go back up and when they do I'm sure that we'll get another article somewhere where the police talk about how crime is on the rise and they need more money...

I guess what I'm saying is, I'm so fucking tired of being lied to. And in such fucking obvious ways.

It [AM radio] needs to be forced as standard equipment.

Why? What good is it for me? I don't speak Spanish.

Younger generations gave up on radio because it sucks. One company bought virtually everything. AM radio is mostly right wing talk shows now. FM radio is the same handful slop music shoved in our faces whether we like it or not pretending to be local radio while owned by clear channel.

You can't shitify a product that much for that long and have anyone give a shit. Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away when it's the exact same content because it's from the exact same mega corporation?

And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more if you're buying a electric car because of the Herculean engineering task needed to make them work around electric car motors.

We spent the last 50 years building out infrastructure for radio. It's called a cell phone. You don't need AM radio in your car anymore.

Yeah sure go ahead and have one of those little radios that you crank and run off batteries. You can even keep on in your car if you want. They are cheap.

But I don't need a bunch of extra expense in my car because a bunch of politicians want to keep talk radio around because it's political useful to them and a bunch of broadcasters want to keep it around because that's how they make their living.

I noticed that people are all in on the market until it's costing them money and then all of a sudden they get real socialist real fast and start running to the government to protect them. The farmers have been doing that for a while. All the small farmers are long since gone because after decades of engineered recessions those guys have long since lost their land to Rich assholes but those Rich assholes keep pretending they're small farmers to get your taxpayer money. It's called the Red Barn illusion.

You get a lot of people with a lot of different views some of which are just fucking stupid and they're only there because the other side wants to murder them.

The Republican party is basically composed of three groups. You've got the racists, you've got the religious lunatics and you have the ultra wealthy who want to screw us all over. That makes them a lot more cohesive and it's less obvious when there is corruption because being corrupt doesn't conflict with the goals of any of those three groups.

The Democrat party is everybody else. That's because America has first passed the post winner take all voting and that means you've got two parties because if you don't you just have one party and a bunch of small parties that keep losing elections.

In the Democrat party when the party is in good shape this kind of corruption is irrelevant because it doesn't make it very far. You'll notice that it's the Democrat party machine in San Francisco that's all in but they're not really going to be able to do much of anything at a state level let alone in national level by themselves. The corrupt elements of the democratic party will partner with the entire Republican party to screw you over.

But if you took out the Republican party the corrupt elements of the democratic party would be pretty fucking weak. It is only by crossing the aisle that they become a problem. This is how you get fuckers like Kirsten Sinema and Fetterment. And they are a problem only because so many people vote Republican that the Democrats have weak majorities if they ever get one.

Too long didn't read, stop voting Republican and the problem solves itself

People do not stop stealing cars because of cameras. But I guess Flock is desperate for some good press, so we get propaganda lies now.

Maybe they are anticipating rivals entering that space and want to move on to something where they have more temporary exclusivity. One or more of the US ones will get there sooner or later, and Chinese companies are well on the way too.

It may also be some pressure from the US government, with the goal of getting back to the moon before China does. More resources for Starship, which is supposed to be able to do the whole mission (take off from Earth, fly to the moon, land, take off again, return to Earth, land).

Forget it. This person threw together what they mistake for a good spec of a browser and then asked Claude to build it. They do not have the skills to do any real work, LLM support or not. This whole thing is just yet another meaningless stunt that impresses the clueless.