LTE voice communication is not a very good example, since it is provided by your mobile carrier, even with LTE. It's not an internet service.
I can't see how autonomous vehicles necessarily require any kind of priority access to the network. Remote surgery is a pipe dream - it has been discussed 20 years ago and nobody cares. It's certainly not worth destroying the network just for that.
With prioritization one could ensure better quality of services also for OTT voip which would certainly be useful.
There will certainly exist more and more services in need of low latency. Why stop innovation in this area by just giving up and saying that no such traffic might exist?
If you read the article there is still strong wording to protect the network as such. It is just that certain services needs lower latency and/or higher reliability. This is nothing new. But with the network nowadays full with 70% video you need to handle it.
I can't see how autonomous vehicles necessarily require any kind of priority access to the network. Remote surgery is a pipe dream - it has been discussed 20 years ago and nobody cares. It's certainly not worth destroying the network just for that.