Seattle-area Mazda drivers report radios
are stuck on the local NPR station
United Press International,
by
Ben Hooper
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/10/2022 9:42:53 AM
Seattle-area drivers of Mazda vehicles from 2014-17 have reported an unusual problem -- their radios are stuck on the local NPR station. KUOW-FM, the Seattle-area NPR station, confirmed it had been contacted by multiple Mazda drivers in the area who reported the HD Radio in the Mazda infotainment center of their vehicles was stuck on the station. The drivers said the radio is frozen on the station and the visuals on the dashboard screen are constantly rebooting, causing a visual hazard for some. Many drivers have taken to social media to complain about the issue. All of the affected vehicles appear
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/10/2022 9:45:17 AM (No. 1067627)
It was supposed to be Subaru radios. Can't they get anything right?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 2/10/2022 9:48:27 AM (No. 1067631)
Never owned a Mazda, never will
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rama41 2/10/2022 9:53:49 AM (No. 1067640)
Coming soon enough to a car near you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 2/10/2022 9:53:52 AM (No. 1067641)
Tell Mazda to call the FFA. All the tv's in airports are stuck on CNN.
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Is this for real? Almost like Germany.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
woodenleg 2/10/2022 10:34:44 AM (No. 1067708)
Kinda like North Korea.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/10/2022 10:40:16 AM (No. 1067726)
You WILL LISTEN to our propaganda stations!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Axeman 2/10/2022 10:43:06 AM (No. 1067734)
Infotainment centers in autos are computers, mostly running the same Unix operating system, that have been custom tailored to the vehicle they are installed into. When the system resets it will run some default bootup script, which will probably make the radio go to the first station it finds. Around our area NPR is usually the first station on the FM band.
The bigger question to me is why the computer is resetting.
I have already removed the hard drive from my car, cloned it, put it back in, and then went through everything on the clone. There is a lot of things the computer can be made to do, none of it with the actual operation of the running gear. Audio, video, networking, navigation locations, lighting, "black box" tracking, phone address book data, vehicle setting, and more, are available as files for exploring. I have been running a password cracking program on the password for a couple of years, figuring they may use the same password on all the vehicles, but it is not a normal easy to crack password. I don't need the password to do anything I want to the software anyway and I don't want to accidentally brick my car, so this is all just for educational purposes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 2/10/2022 10:55:02 AM (No. 1067749)
Wife’s M5 Miata Speed has channels set to exclude NPR and MPR (Minnesota Public Radio! Obnoxious twits with a Northeastern “accent” or affect to sound just smarter than us rubes here in the Midwest! Egggghhhh!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/10/2022 11:12:26 AM (No. 1067776)
Just a guess here: many stations, not necessarily the one in question, are running HD digital radio on their sub-carrier. Maybe it confuses the 'info-tainment' center. In effect, telling it to be unresponsive.
Any thoughts?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Marzon 2/10/2022 12:03:51 PM (No. 1067835)
Ah yes NPR, Home of "All Things Considered...From a leftist point of view"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 2/10/2022 12:43:20 PM (No. 1067864)
Hahaha! Reminds me of knotzee Germany in the 30s when Goebbels made sure every household in the Reich had an affordable radio in the house, but only knotzees came out of it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/10/2022 12:59:35 PM (No. 1067884)
No surprise if this is happening with Subarus but Mazdas?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/10/2022 1:12:25 PM (No. 1067894)
If all NPR played was classical music, I could live with this. Everything from Orlando di Lasso to Bela Bartok is enjoyable to me. (I had a classical music upbringing with formal piano lessons from 5-15.) However, All Things Considered and the general left wing output of public radio are irritating enough to send me to the "Next" or "Seek" button on my car radio.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/10/2022 1:44:20 PM (No. 1067908)
My first car was a 1939 Plymouth business coupe. And the radio seemed stuck on one program - Fibber McGee and Molly.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
GirlwithaCurl 2/10/2022 2:55:28 PM (No. 1067983)
Stopped tuning into NPR when Tom from Car Talk had to leave the show.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Submariner 2/10/2022 4:22:41 PM (No. 1068054)
Bernie Bro hacker's handiwork.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 2/10/2022 4:32:25 PM (No. 1068064)
#4 Just curious. What can the Future Farmers of America do about it?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
padiva 2/10/2022 7:06:36 PM (No. 1068233)
My 2015 Subaru isn't stuck on one radio station.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 2/10/2022 7:49:55 PM (No. 1068250)
#4 - um, could you have meant FAA ? Federal Aviation Administration ?
Too many similar acronyms or maybe just too many acronyms !
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Penney 2/10/2022 10:07:04 PM (No. 1068376)
NPR?!! -Talk about torture! YIKES!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
pmcclure 2/11/2022 4:24:01 PM (No. 1069227)
Perhaps this is a trial run by the Powers That Be?
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You gotta get people to listen to NPR one way or another. Good luck changing the station.