The car is a research vehicle of a local university, where they fitted custom motors for controlling steering. The Redmi Note 9 Pro phone is communicating via a wireless CAN bus interface to the Suzuki Alto car.
This is really more a proof of concept than a serious commercial solution, but the code is open source (link in the article), so one can see how it works... and it does actually drive the car.
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opensource This blog post is an overview journey of me and friends making an affordable and safe self driving car system.