'"If we want to have a driverless car or if you have specific, applications for telemedicine, then they have to have reliable and always secure connections," Merkel said.'
So long as this is government-specified, industry-wide preferential treatment (IE, ALL driverless cars, not just Toyota's because they paid), this seems somewhat reasonable. It also seems abusable, and adding the capability for preferential treatment seems like a potentially dangerous step, but it's much more nuanced than simply "speaks out against net neutrality".
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However, the fact that she made this statements on a conference organized by one of Germany's largest ISPs doesn't make me very optimistic.