Huawei made a Porsche slightly autonomous with a smartphone

With no flagship phone to show off to the assembled mass of journalists, bloggers and tech execs, Huawei took a different tack this year at MWC. To showcase the company's AI push (read: remind everyone it's really into this neural processing gig), the Huawei used its Mate 10 Pro smartphone as a lightweight autonomous car brain, inside a Porsche, right outside FC Barcelona's stadium. I was one of the lucky few to experience what it's like to be driven around by an Android phone. Let's not get ahead of ourselves: This isn't Huawei eyeing a move into the crowded, messy world of self-driving cars. As one spokesperson put it, if a phone can "drive" a car, it must be a pretty good phone.