'"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".

If this is what they are planning, then you are right.

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.