Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro can now drive cars

Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in smartphones is now what most smartphones are doing to make their phones AI powered. Huawei, however, has figured out a new way to use AI and this is through controlling self-driving cars.

Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro, which marked itself as the world’s first smartphone to drive a car, will be able to steer clear a car from obstacles on the road thanks to its AI powered Kirin chip. Huawei released a brief video in which it trained its AI to identify cats and dogs and was successful when it carried out a test.

Video Credits: Huawei Mobile UK

A special Porsche Panamera model was turned to a driver-less car and was rewired to be controlled by Huawei’s latest smartphone. The smartphone has been installed on the car’s dashboard but instead of scanning the road through its camera, the phone’s hardware analyzed the data gathered by sensors that are installed in the vehicle to make decisions there and then, explained Android Headlines. Huawei also asserts that its custom built car can not only see its environment but can also understand it and distinguish between thousands of objects.

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Naming the project as ‘RoadReader’, the smartphone company’s engineers claim that it only took them five week to make the object recognition service. The phone was already called the most capable device in terms of smartphone photography till now, and with this integration of AI to control driver-less cars, Huawei has just upped its game more.

As per Android Central, The RoadReader project will be presented in Spain at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 on February 26 and 27. The people attending can also be able to drive the car themselves to experience the technology.

Huawei’s Western Europe’s Chief Marketing Officer, Andrew Garrihy expressed, “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. If our technology is intelligent enough to achieve this in just 5 weeks – what else can it make possible?”