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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 smartphone they're using the make 10 pro and it's given 970 chip which has AI capabilities inside it and what they claim is that the processing inside the phone is going to help the car detect and avoid obstacles behind the camera there is a Porsche Panamera with a mate 10 probe mounted on the dashboard going forwards and backwards and forwards and backwards over there there were a bunch of cardboard cutouts there's a giant soccer ball there's a guy with a bike there's a dog and the foot on the first run the Porsche is driving at five miles an hour and during that time it's learning to recognize the objects and we are going to say like what to do when it sees the object like we should've swerve right should it make an emergency stop or so on then on the second run it's going to drive at 30 miles an hour it's going to 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 a story of my life so yeah we're sad in this pusher 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 a 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 but via USB C but the processing and the recognition is what's happening on the phone and that's the important thing Horace's so I've everything is set up the phone has taken control of the engine now the phone says your car already are you press drive and enjoy the ride so let's do that I feel I feel very ready they'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 and a bicycle has been detected now we're looking at a soccer ball a ball has been detected now most importantly is it going to detect the dog a dog has been detected moves up so our first run has been scuppered because the phone lost its connection to the camera on top of the car because of perhaps a faulty USBC cable which we've all been there okay phase two okay so if you like to press Continue okay so if you see a bicycle do you want it to swerve left swear I will break let's soive left if you see a bull right okay and if you see the dog that's break those are the guys that I'm gonna pick one that ran over to our track so if we see the ball the cars gonna swerve right very good okay Simon okay we're in gear I messed up the hitch well we're going miss scanning for obstacles a ball has been detected preparing somewhere wait right well I guess it worked so well we isn't getting into autonomous driving or self-driving cars in on a real level this is really about showing off what it's phones can do Huawei has been talking for a long time about the AI capabilities of its processors the Carey 970 is said to have an NP you 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 table thank you just wanna capture how beautiful the camera looks which is very beautiful