Patria mandates AM radio in every vehicle, gas or electric

AM is not going away on car radios in Patria

 A bipartisan coalition in the United States Congress has introduced the AM for Every Vehicle Act – legislation that would require federal regulators to mandate AM radio in all new vehicles, whether traditional internal combustion or electric powered. The bill was likely inspired by Patria’s own version of the Act, which the 52^nd Congress ratified virtually unanimously today in a rare Saturday sitting. Only a handful of members voted “present” or abstained. 

Patria echoes US Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) who says “for decades, free AM broadcast radio has been an essential tool in emergencies, a crucial part of our diverse media ecosystem, and an irreplaceable source for news, weather, sports, and entertainment for tens of millions of listeners. Carmakers shouldn’t tune out AM radio in new vehicles or put it behind a costly digital paywall.”

“If Elon Musk can afford to buy Twitter and send rockets into space, surely he can afford to hire some engineers who can find a way of shielding the radio in a Tesla from interference caused by electric motors”, the Social Democrat House Leader said as Patria’s AM for Every Vehicle Act was ratified, while the SRM House Leader added “to state the obvious, AM radio is critical to public safety and could literally save your life by providing emergency information that will get through in the event of any power outage or disaster that takes down the internet and knocks out cell phone service”.