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When a bus in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, approached its station, it stopped smoothly as other buses did, but the driver's feet did not hit the brake, nor did his hands touch the wheel.

The bus is one of the four self-driving buses tested on a 7.8 kilometer-long route along public city roads in Changsha since the end of last year, as one of the 228 test scenarios of the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Changsha) Testing Zone.