Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 SUV to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived. Now, the supplier is shifting from stunts to selling.

Autonomous vehicles are already making profound choices about whose lives matter, according to experts, so we might want to pay attention.

All of a sudden, all the protocols that have served this industry for decades are being thrown out in the rush to produce self-driving vehicles. And for some crazy reason, many states are allowing testing of the prototypes on public roads.

Love was in the air at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s summit meeting last week with tech executives. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, was really feeling it, coming as it did a day after the company announced that its self-driving technology was ready for commercialization.

Either driverless cars replicate humans a bit too well or they need more tweaking before they’re ready for prime time.