Huawei has become the first smartphone manufacturer to use artificial intelligence from a mobile phone for autonomous driving purposes. Huawei's RoadReader program is credited with turning the Porsche Panamera into an autonomous car that can see and understand what's going on around it. We can expect a presentation at MWC 2018.
RoadReader you can distinguishes between thousands of different objects, such as a cat, a dog, a ball or a bicycle. It also learns on its own initiative and intervenes automatically when it recognizes one of these subjects. Most autonomous systems currently under development depend on the computing power of dedicated processors supplied by companies outside the automotive industry. But it is contrary to these Huawei's RoadReader dependent only on the Mate 10 Pro mobile phone. This one has built-in advanced NPU processing unit, which transmits the necessary data for the operation of artificial intelligence, which is already used by the Mate 10 Pro smartphone.
The project they took on at Huawei was complex, and they only had 5 weeks to do it. First, the car had to be modified so that it could be operated without the presence of the driver. The next step was covering a program that allows the phone to tell the car which obstacle is located on the road. The phone must thus provide the right information to the car in a fraction of a second so that this obstacle can be avoided or stopped in time. So the focus is on the smartphone that is able to identify and differentiate between different objects, thereby increasing the performance of artificial intelligence in smartphones to a whole new level.
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