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Taxi driver Li worked continuously on a east-west road in a certain urban area from $8:00$ to $9:20$ in the morning, serving a total of eight batches of passengers. If it is stipulated that east is positive and west is negative, the distances Li drove for the eight batches of passengers are as follows: $+8, -6, +3, -4, +8, -4, +4, -3$. $(1)$ When Li dropped off the last batch of passengers at their destination, in what direction and how many kilometers away was Li from the starting point of the first batch of passengers? $(2)$ What was Li's average speed in kilometers per hour during this time period?

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