Well, there's also the data point that demand is so low the AM radio industry has literally gone to congress and asked to make receivers mandatory.

Consumer demand in populated areas sure, but out in the boonies digital radio doesn’t work as well.

Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Tho none of that is a reason to force auto makers to include AM radio.

> Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Spectrum is a finite, shared resource. Especially these lower frequency bands.

And AM has use as an emergency utility and FM is more accessible than digital radio.

Why do you keep jumping from AM to digital radio? What does that even mean, are you talking about XM? You do know FM exists and is analog, right?

Digital radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio

The commenter with the teslas was saying that AM is dead and FM is nearly dead.

Look at the numbers. Fewer people listen to the crappy DJs, payola music, annoying commercials, or hate-wing talk radio. Radio is dying.

There is a difference between "declining" and "dying". The former is descriptive. The latter is a prediction.

There is little debate that radio is declining. To me, it more interesting how it is changing: the audience, the programming, the impact. Whether (and when) radio might completely "die" is a prediction that requires some kind of clarification about the details.

12 years ago I wasn’t nearly as successful, but I did have Bluetooth in my car. Even in my old Hyundai and my wife’s Honda we never used the tuners.