Isn&#x27;t the definition of &quot;profit&quot; literally the difference between cost and price?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;101314&#x2F;what-difference-between-cost-and-price.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;ask&#x2F;answers&#x2F;101314&#x2F;what-differen...</a><p>My point is the BoM of self-driving sensors and cpus for a car is not actually that great.  The new Teslas and Volvos  don&#x27;t have fancy lidar scanners like the Google cars have.<p>The other day I was passenger in a automatic-breaking-at-intersections Volvo.  We did not put that to the test.  But its &#x27;just&#x27; higher-precision parking sensors that are cheap and ubiquitous now.