Comment by superkuh

Comment by superkuh 10 months ago

9 replies

Yes. It should be the FCC enforcing their regulatory duties against specific car models not the house legislating in general. The amount of interference on the low frequency bands that some electrical cars produce prevents reception of AM. And that was already very illegal. You can't do that but car manufacturers were/are too big to care. The public safety aspect of it is entirely secondary.

brewdad 10 months ago

Didn't the Supreme Court basically say recently that the FCC and similar Executive Branch groups can't enforce such rules? They must come from the Legislature to have any hope of surviving review.

  • cogman10 10 months ago

    The way the ruling was made, it will be a case by case basis. If a republican FCC does it, that will be fine and normal but if a democrat does it, it's out of the legislative authority.

    Either way, the 5th circuit will stop the rules from going into effect.

    • lupusreal 10 months ago

      That's not right either, you're both wrong. Federal agencies are still allowed to make up regulations not explicitly found in the letter of the law, and courts are allowed to strike down those regulation if they think they're too far outside the spirit of the law. It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.

      • cogman10 10 months ago

        > It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.

        One party has 6 supreme Court justices on the bench who we now know are explicitly working to further Republican causes [1]. The conservative supreme court is making rulings before hearing cases or reviewing evidence/decisions. They aren't interested in legal analysis which was clear with the trump immunity ruling.

        So no, not "the same".

        [1] https://theweek.com/politics/supreme-court-roberts-maga

  • superkuh 10 months ago

    If the FCC can't enforce the prevention of interference with radio broadcasts it is not the FCC. I'm not sure what ruling you're referencing but I doubt it nulls out the core idea of what the FCC does.

    • krapp 10 months ago

      They're referring to the recent decision which reversed the Chevron doctrine, which allowed courts to defer to the interpretation of ambiguous regulations by regulatory agencies. The most common interpretation of this decision is that it has the effect of nullifying the ability of regulatory agencies to regulate, and removes the bulk of their former role to Congress.

      Here is a lengthy HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949

tzs 10 months ago

> The amount of interference on the low frequency bands that some electrical cars produce prevents reception of AM. And that was already very illegal.

Is it illegal if it doesn't interfere with communications outside the car?