Well actually it is. This, not having to do with cars or anything like this, is because Germany want's to establish some kind of "tax" on sites like Google News, to subside it's big publishing-houses.

Google is aggressively lobbying for a "free" internet (free meaning, Google can make money as they see fit) and the publishers are lobbying aggressively for this law, to get some slice of the advertising-cake, that ends up in Googles purse. As the publishers are not able to build a successful online-business, they try to lobby for this subsidiary.

So some kind of "lobby-war" between Google, German publishers and the German Government going on right now.