Gee, that's nice. So you can park in relative peace and come back to find the guy with the beater in front of you has repeatedly bashed in your front bumper trying to get out. This one has, as I suspect the VW does too, four wheel steering. Four wheel steering allows the car to be parked with very little space between it and the adjacent cars. Suppose someone puts their brand new '96 VW in front of my '72 Galaxie and leaves me 2 inches of clearance.
People simply refuse to tolerate death by computer error.
It seems they would gladly take ten times the amount of death by human error first, or death by their own error. Any computerized traffic system would have some bugs, and thus some deaths. But even if traffic deaths are reduced from 10,000 to 100, and likewise for injuries, the problem is that a computerized traffic system creates somebody else to blame, other than yourself and the other drivers. Lawsuits will seek out the vendors. Our current system depends on the fact that most people never get properly compensated, or that the compensation is spread out among thousands of drivers and their insurance companies.