However, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily said Mrs Merkel was willing to see the ECB step up its buying of bonds from indebted eurozone countries, as a bridging solution until budget controls took hold.
The ideal solution, then, would involve car-makers hard-wiring the necessary controls for the top 20 percent of functions into physical buttons and knobs.
One likely solution: issue a pared-down version of the service, possibly one that included basic gestural controls and the ability to view conference participants sitting side by side in a virtual room.