He was just uttering lobby talk in public
The car industry is now working seriously on automatic driving and other bandwidth heavy in-car applications like on-line vehicle data tracking, content streaming, you name it...
They need some serious mobile traffic for that. Unfortunately the internet is not really well suited for real time data exchange, but prioritizing traffic might help in this case. So they are lobbying heavily to get their way. Looks like he grabbed up some lobby phrases and slung them around in public.
Not a smart move, but he was sent to the EU commission for a reason - that was probably not "being a good politician".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
