Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Riding in Huawei’s phone-driven car”.
Hey this is Sam., I’m at the Camp, Nou FC, Barcelona’s, beautiful stadium and we are going to see what Huawei claims is. The world’s first self-driving car powered by a smart phone., (, electronic music, ) They’re, using the Mate 10 Pro, and it’s Kirin 970 chip, which has AI capabilities inside it. And what they claim is that the processing inside the phone is gon na help. The car detect and avoid obstacles and behind the camera there is a Porsche Panamera with a Mate 10 Pro mounted on the dashboard going forwards and backwards and forwards and backwards over there.
There are a bunch of cardboard cut-outs. There’S a giant soccer ball, there’s a guy with a bike there’s a dog and on the first run, the Porsche is driving at five miles an hour and during that time it’s learning to recognize the object and we are gon na say like what to do when It sees the object, should it swerve right, should it make an emergency stop or so on., Then, on the second run, it’s gon na drive at 30 miles an hour. It’S gon na recognize one of the objects, and hopefully, if the system works, it will act. Accordingly. We’re waiting for the USBC connection to work.
Story of my life., So yeah we’re sat in this Porsche and it looks pretty much like a normal car. I think that’s sort of the point of this demo, just like the car, is not an unusual car beyond the mountain of tech. On top of it, it’s just a regular car., So the phone isn’t acting completely by itself. To be clear, there is a big ski box on top of the car, with a bunch of tech in it there’s the whole camera set-up and that’s what’s sort of acting as the eyes for the phone.. It’S linked up to the phone by a USBC, but the processing and the recognition is what’s happening on the phone and that’s the important thing: Huawei says., So I’ve everything is set up. The phone has taken control of the engine.. Now the phone says your car are ready, are you Press drive and enjoy the ride.? So let’s do that..
I feel very ready. ( awkward, music ) We’re moving. At five miles, an hour.
There is nobody next to me.. So I guess what’s happening right now. Is the tech above me is viewing all these cardboard images in front of me and the phone is learning what they are.? A bicycle has been detected.. Now we’re looking at a soccer ball., A ball has been detected.
Now, most importantly, is it gon na detect the dog? The dog has been detected.. What was that So? Our first run has been scuppered because the phone lost it’s connection to the camera. On top of the car, because of perhaps a faulty USBC cable, which we’ve all been there., Okay Put on phase two okay. So if you’d like to press continue. Okay, so if you see a bicycle, do you want it to swerve left, swerve right or break Err? Let’S swerve left, If you see a ball, Swerve right., Okay, and if you see the dog, That’s break.
Right, okay, very good., So the guys are now gon na pick one at random and put it out on the track.. So if we see the ball, the car’s gon na swerve right, Very good, okay, so we’re going to gear. So if you’d like to press I’m in gear., Okay, we’re in gear., I messed up the touch. ( car revs, ) Whoa, we’re going. [ Man Behind Steering Wheel, ] We’re scanning for obstacles..
A ball has been detected preparing to swerve right [ Man In Passenger Seat ], Swerve, right. Wow. I guess it worked., So Huawei isn’t getting into autonomous driving or self-driving cars on a real level. This is really about showing off what its phones can.
Do. Huawei has been talking for a long time about the AI capabilities of its processes. The Kirin 970 is said to have an NPU, a neural processing unit, and this is really just a way to show off how the phone can use its capabilities in a real time. Way., The man is going to get some tape.
Thank you.. I just wan na capture how beautiful the camera looks., Which is very beautiful, .