Last year, a self-driving car developed by China's National University of Defense Technology traveled 177 miles from Changsha to Wuhan.

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He traveled to China four years ago and discovered an indie rock scene in Wuhan, a grimy industrial city of more than 8 million people, where he now owns a club with a Chinese partner.

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