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Congress Is Still Trying to Save AM Radio. Do You Even Care?
AM radio is still the default for emergency broadcasts, but there are far more ways to spread information now.
The feature is also disappearing in some ICE-powered vehicles, but it’s more commonly omitted in EVs because their powertrains produce quite a bit of electronic interference, and AM frequencies are particularly sensitive to it. While there are good reasons to preserve AM radio reception, the primary driver behind it—the emergency broadcast system—has become less of a priority in the age of mobile phones, and while it took the government an inappropriately (though entirely expected) long time to acknowledge that, it finally got around to passing the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015, which did two things: That’s the long, red-tapey way of saying that we don’t need to rely on AM radio anymore, and we’re just doing so because we haven’t implemented the next thing yet—or for that matter, even bothered to define it.
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