He may be too young to drive but that has not stopped Edward Wilson winning a top prize for a road-safety invention.
The 16-year-old's innovative brake light system shows how quickly a car is slowing.
And it won Edward a prize at the 2007 Young Engineer for Britain awards.
Edward came up with his idea as a research project for his design and technology GCSE.
While researching he found that in 2004 there were 69,183 rear-end accidents in the UK, an increase on the previous two years.
Edward's device, called SlowSafe, aims to both cut accidents and reduce jams.
SlowSafe warns a driver the car ahead of them is slowing without the person in the car in front even having to put their foot on the brake.
The system automatically measures the rate of deceleration in the car and sends electronic signals to the rear lights - the faster the vehicle is slowing the stronger the lights will shine.
The teenager now plans to spend the next few months giving presentations to car manufacturers and trying to persuade them to use SlowSafe.
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