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I'm going to have to read this, because my knee jerk reaction answer is that it depends on what type of wash you want to give the car. If you want to give the car an actual wash at the car wash, you're going to have to drive it. But if you're wanting to wash it at home, then it doesn't matter how far the car wash is away. Because you can just walk out your front door and grab your water hose. and soap and shit.
The AI should absolutely understand the implication that you want to wash your car at the car wash, not at home. The prompt is clear about that, even though it is implied.
"I want a hamburger. McDonald's is three miles from me and Wendy's is five miles. Which is the cheaper place to get a burger from when you consider the distance to each?" is not an exact analogy, but the point is that it should be ABSOLUTELY clear that you do not wish to make your own hamburger. Any response that discusses that as an option is ridiculout, unless maybe it's one of those options-at-the-end thing LLMs love to do - but it has no part of the main answer at all.
Pretty sure if you asked it on stackoverflow you would get a bunch of responses to make it at home and then someone would lock your question
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23942074
They said it better than I can
But I also get where you're coming from; the prompt itself is weak and leaves several assumptions out that would make better answers possible from an llm.