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Even their typically rather conservative trade group, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, has said since 2023 that AM is unnecessary for emergency alerts and an impediment to making better cars.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

One impediment has been the spotty availability of charging infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

This is, by far, the main structural impediment to success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Human consent is not an impediment to progress. Human consent does not diminish the struggles and the joys of technological innovation or inhuman creativity," Blanchett said at the event in the parliament's library.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Furthermore, once malaria and yellow fever did become transmitted to the Americas by European ship traffic, they emerged as the major impediment to colonization of the New World tropics as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But a 2015 Government Accountability Office investigation noted impediments to their use: uncertainty about which government functions were “inherently federal” and therefore outside tribal authority, a cumbersome application process, and cost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

As much as you might want to stay in your home, new impediments can arise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said at the weekend that assistance for the territory's 2.1 million population "must be scaled up by removing impediments and safeguarding neutrality of aid".

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

“At least the impediments that kept us from retaining recruits, to get them in the academy, that has changed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times