This Porsche is being driven by a smartphone

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has shown how an AI-powered smartphone can drive a car.As Ivor Bennett reports, the'RoadReader' project, on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, aims to demonstrate how existing mobile technology is capable of handling autonomous vehicles. A view of a driverless Porsche car controlled by Huawai's Mate 10 Pro handset that transforms a regular car into a self-driving vehicle. BARCELONA -- I'm a passenger in a Porsche Panamera riding on a short track set up outside Barcelona's soccer stadium. But what makes this particular driverless car demo unique is that it is being piloted by Huawei's Mate 10 Pro smartphone. The Chinese smartphone maker, the third largest in the world, insists it is not getting into the self-driving car business.