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Do you want personal anecdotes? In the era before smart phones I'd definitely wandered into circumstances where the radio was what alerted me to tornado sighti
by knowtheory 14y ago
Do you want personal anecdotes? In the era before smart phones I'd definitely wandered into circumstances where the radio was what alerted me to tornado sightings in a state i was unfamiliar with on a long drive.
I would not have thought to bring a stand alone radio in the car that i was borrowing from a family member on that drive. Even in the modern era, it's not hard to believe that someone might have forgotten their charging cable for their phone and allowed it to run down, or a whole myriad list of reasons why a phone may be operating.
- mikeash 14y agoThose are good reasons to think about general emergency communication, but bad reasons to keep building antiquated AM/FM radio tuners into every single new car. There have to be better ways.
- knowtheory 14y agoThat's what i'm saying. AM/FM is not antiquated, and there is no suitable replacement for broadcast technology. The business model is fucked for a pile of reasons, but when we're talking about reaching large numbers of people in a relatively fault tolerant way, there is no competition to broadcast.