Your new car has all the usual shiny new entertainment tech, but you’re in the mood for an old favorite. You skip past the buttons for satellite radio and Bluetooth connectivity to tune in to your ever-reliable source of news, sports, and even lifesaving alerts in a crisis.
That’s when it hits you: There’s no AM radio.
Think back to the 1960s, when seatbelts weren’t standard. Automakers fought mandates then, too, calling them costly and unnecessary — until lives saved proved them wrong.
As I’ve reported here before, carmakers like Tesla, Ford, and BMW have been quietly dropping in-vehicle AM radios for years, claiming it’s no longer practical or financially viable to include it.
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But don’t turn that dial just yet.
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