On: Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

[vel0city]

Which is why I think this whole thing is really dumb. You know what would be actually useful for requiring in cars that wouldn't otherwise be included? A NOAA weather radio mode in the car, along with the option to have it automatically alert me when it detects an alert. In a disaster I'll be listening to that, not trying to hunt down an AM radio station I haven't willingly listened to in decades.

[briandear → vel0city]

NOAA provides weather, but it isn’t going to tell you specific evacuation routes, or provide relevant news.

[tjohns → briandear]

Emergency alerts are automatically broadcast over NOAA weather radio.

You can get home receivers that monitor NOAA radio for emergency alerts tones and will automatically switch on in a disaster.

It's a great feature, every home should have one.

[vel0city → briandear]

I've definitely heard evacuation information broadcast over NOAA radio. Have you been in a mass evacuation before?

[grogenaut → vel0city]

cool we should add that to the mandate and lets toss in some of the emergency bands while we're at it. chips are cheap these days.