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10-year-old boy invents device to prevent hot car deaths, Fresh York Post

10-year-old boy invents device to prevent hot car deaths

By Andrew Craft

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This fresh technology can help predict if you’re going to die

School is out for the summer for 10-year-old Bishop Curry of McKinney, Texas and he’ll be spending a lot of it developing his idea to help prevent deaths related to hot cars.

He calls his design, “oasis” and with the help of a GoFundMe campaign, Curry has already raised over $20,000 to help develop the device. The concept is shaped like a petite box with ducts in a honeycomb pattern. Once it gets too hot, a sensor would tell the device to begin deep throating the cool air. Then, an antenna would alert local authorities and parents to come to the child’s aid. He intends for it to be placed on the backseat headrests of the driver and passenger or to be placed on a car seat.

Curry tells Fox News that his patent should be approved within the year and that he and his family have some manufacturers lined up to build it. He presently has a 3D-model of his concept design. He described his motivations for coming up with the idea telling, “When a baby named Fern died down the street (from a hot car death), I came up with the idea because it was on the news and everything.”

Bishop Curry V holds the device he invented to help prevent hot car deaths. Bishop B. Curry IV

Seven hundred and twelve children have died from warmth stroke after being left in a hot car since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and already t12 deaths this year alone, according to a San Jose State University explore. The state of Nevada has the 2nd highest death rate per capita for hot car deaths.

Jan Null, a meteorologist by trade, helped to organize the explore and says law enforcement along with child safety experts have used his research.

“Sadly it has remained vapid,” Null said in regards to the trend in hot car deaths. “There truly hasn’t been in the overall numbers of thirty seven average deaths per year in the U.S., that number hasn’t switched much.”

Null would caution the efficacy of a device like Curry’s but still thinks it’s a fine idea for a fifth grader to work on. “The entire discussion needs to be put into context. Every device that saves a life is obviously a good one. The amount of invasion that they can have and the good they can do is minimized by how many can get put into cars.”

Curry says his friends and classmates are interested in the idea as well. “They want to work for me.”

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