Mathias Miedreich, CEO of ZF Group; Young Sohn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, HARMAN and Senior Advisor, Samsung Electronics; and Christian Sobottka, Chief Executive Officer and President, Automotive Division, HARMAN, sign a definitive agreement for HARMAN to acquire ZF’s ADAS business – strengthening HARMAN’s leadership in software-defined vehicles and advancing a unified safety-to-experience platform for automakers worldwide.
YOUR NEXT CAR IS ABOUT TO BECOME A SURVEILLANCE PRISON ON WHEELS. In a shocking €1.5 BILLION power grab, Samsung’s HARMAN has just seized control of ZF Group’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)—the very eyes and brains of modern vehicles. This isn’t just business; it’s a TERRIFYING STEP toward a TOTALITARIAN future where every camera, every radar, and every software function in your car is OWNED AND CONTROLLED by a single corporate-tech GOLIATH.
This acquisition creates a “unified safety-to-experience platform”—a chilling euphemism for a centralized digital prison. HARMAN executives brazenly boast of “perception-informed audio cues” and “situation-aware driving,” but the REAL TRUTH is now undeniable: your vehicle is being weaponized to monitor your every move, your attention, your very life, and feed it all into a SINGLE COMPUTE BRAIN. This is the final piece of the puzzle for a global tech conglomerate to DOMINATE not just your phone and TV, but the very roads you drive on.
Nearly FOUR THOUSAND engineers and staff from ZF will be absorbed into this leviathan, their expertise funneled into building the ultimate surveillance machine disguised as a “driver aid.” The stated goal of “empathetic” and “intuitive” vehicles is a LIE; the goal is CONTROL. This centralized architecture isn’t about convenience—it’s a TROJAN HORSE designed to lock consumers and automakers into an inescapable ecosystem where safety and freedom are TRADED for data and corporate profit.
Samsung and HARMAN are no longer just selling gadgets; they are constructing the infrastructure for a dystopian reality where your car knows too much and owes its loyalty to a corporation, not to you. Welcome to the future of mobility, where you are no longer the driver—you are the DATA POINT in the passenger seat.



