Huawei's "RoadReader" project enabled the A.I. powered Mate 10 Pro to drive a car!

A phone that can drive a car! Huawei has just showcased the first car in the world to have an A.I. powered smartphone to drive a car.

RoadReader project

Huawei used the A.I. object recognition of the Kirin 970 chipset inside the Mate 10 Pro flagship smartphone to make that possible.

Huawei has "transformed" the Porsche Panamera into a driverless vehicle that understands its surroundings.

According to the company, the A.I. powered smartphone can n distinguish between 1,000s of different objects including a cat and a dog, a ball or a bike and learn to take the most appropriate course of action.

Currently, the Mate 10 Pro uses A.I. to automatically distingush objects like cats, dogs, food, and etc. to help users take images like a pro.

Our smartphone is already outstanding at object recognition. We wanted to see if in a short space of time we could teach it to not only drive a car, but to use its AI capabilities to see certain objects, and be taught to avoid them said Andrew Garrihy, Chief Marketing Officer, Huawei Western Europe. If our technology is intelligent enough to achieve this in just 5 weeks - what else can it make possible?

Huawei will showcase the RoadReader project at MWC 2018 this Feb 26 to 27.

Delegates will be invited to test "drive" the car themselves, teaching it to identify and manoeuvre around certain objects.

Interesting!