In a parking lot at FC Barcelona’s iconic Camp Nou stadium, Huawei is attempting just that — and the company says this is the first time a self-driving car has ever been powered by a smartphone. Sure enough, a Mate 10 Pro mounted on the dashboard of a Porsche Panamera — and hooked up to a skibox on the roof with a camera and a connection to the drivetrain — turned the car into a driverless vehicle capable of detecting and maneuvering around certain objects. To be clear, Huawei isn’t getting into autonomous driving; this was simply a stunt intended to show off what can be achieved with the Kirin 970.

The test drive was comprised of two parts: a slow, 5mph run where the car and phone detected and “learned” about three large cardboard obstacles, and a 30mph drive where the car had to avoid one of those obstacles in its path. After the first run, I told the car what to do upon detecting each obstacle — swerve left for the dog, swerve right for the giant soccer ball, brake hard for the guy with a bike — and someone from Huawei chose which obstacle to put in the car’s path for the second run.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17061360/huawei-mate-10-pro-ai-self-driving-porsche-mwc-2018