Bishop’s dad, also named Bishop, is an engineer and is very proud of his son’s innovation. “The cool thing about Bishop’s thinking is none of this technology is new,” he told his local newspaper. “We have things to alert our phone, we have ways to provide either cooling through a fan or through an air condition system. We have ways to detect weight. So none of it is new, so we feel like the way he’s thinking and combining all these technologies will get to production faster than if it’s something that is just a brand new type of technology.”
Since over a dozen children die in preventable hot car deaths in the U.S. each summer, I’m truly hoping Bishop’s device makes it to market, because I truly believe it WILL save lives, if not because it actually HAS to be used, but because just it’s presence may be enough to remind weary, distracted parents that they have a baby on board before they leave their vehicles to rush to the next thing on their to-do list.
Kids helping kids, I LOVE IT! Way to go, Bishop!! If you’d like to support Bishop’s efforts to get his product produced, check out his family’s GoFundMe here.
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