11-Year-Old Texas Boy Invents Device to Prevent Hot Car Deaths

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Bishop Curry looks for ways to fix the world.

For an 11-year-old boy, he’s unusually curious about big-picture problems, his dad says — from natural disasters to civil rights. And he’s always loved to tinker.

That’s why it wasn’t a surprise when Bishop, after seeing an upsetting local news report about a 6-month-old who died when left in a hot car, resolved to make sure something like that never happened again.

“I was like, ‘This would be my one-way shot to actually helping people,'” Bishop told NBC News.