24 Amazing Innovations From India's Young Minds


#23 Preventing driving without a license/valid documents

In the wake of increased rate of accidents caused by those without licenses, or without proper training; these young minds have conceived novel ideas to prevent this.

The basic idea is to prevent a vehicle from being driven if the authorized license is not present, is invalid or has expired.

Varsha Kumari

Class 10, Indra Prasad Singh Gangstahliya Balika Gyanpith

Patna, Bihar

Varsha’s innovation is about swiping the driving license, like on a credit card machine. The vehicle starts only if a pre-authorized license is swiped. This also protects the car against theft.

The idea came to her when a friend's car was stolen and never found.

Durgesh Kumar

Class 10, DAV HFC Barauni

Begusarai, Bihar

Durgesh's innovation has a mini scanner fixed on the steering wheel, only up on the drivers’ license matches with the authentic license stored in the scanner's database, the steering wheel gets unlocked.

#22 A solution to tackle Illegal drivers

Jyoti Dhillon

Class 10, Shishu Shala School, Rewari, Haryana

Jyoti thinks of an automatic sensor inside the vehicle that prevents driving without a valid license.

Ranjan, Class 8 and Shiv Kumar, Class 6

Gandhi Madhya Vidyalaya, Patna, Bihar

Ravi and Shiv being troubled by daily cases of neighborhood vehicles thefts and accidents caused by people without valid licenses came up with an idea where there’s an electronic slot near the ignition which can identify the validity of the license upon inserting it. And only if the card is valid the engine starts.