I was a beekeeper for 10 years, loved it. I learned a lot about life and living, and how other creatures do it. (I also learned a lot about agricultural chemicals, unfortunately). The bee yard was a great place for meditation. I would sit near the hives for hours, watching them go about their business, lulled into peace by the background drone of activity. There is also scope for using woodworking skills, for those who like that.
Self-driving usually intersects with EV's simply for the fact that EV's are a newer idea, and self-driving can't (sadly) be really well currently added to existing cars. Comma.ai isn't really on the track to compete.
Those that are in market for an ICE car have an order of magnitude larger used car market available for them. You can get a car from the year 2000 and drive it no problem.
If you are looking at a car that's the best worth for your money, while "subsidizing" better future tech that will directly save lives, if the latter is an added negative for you, well that's just misanthropy.
In my admittedly little experience running a tiny LLM service on a single 5090 for friends, I would guess a fair bit. It depends on how many tok/sec you're targeting and how much memory you're allowing be used for context (and their context). Definitely more than 1, MAYBE an order of magnitude.
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