SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the increased-fines-will-maintain-revenue dept.
Joshua Browder has set up a service that has led users to challenge and overturn over $2.5 million in parking tickets:
An "automated lawyer" chatbot service has successfully challenged and overturned more than $2.5m in parking tickets in New York and London, according to its inventor.
The Do Not Pay service automatically generates an appeal if people fit the criteria to challenge a parking ticket – all publicly available information – and it has been successful an extraordinary 64 per cent of the time, says London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder. Asked about the success rate, he told The Register: "It's not that high. Parking tickets are a multimillion dollar industry. I am just appealing a small fraction of it."
The service is free and leads people through a series of quick questions before firing off a missive to fine-collecting bureaucrats. Not surprisingly, having an artificial intelligence (AI) bot do the legwork for you has been inviting, and over 250,000 appeals have been lodged through it. Demand is such that Browder noted with some irony that his focus on it caused him to get his own parking ticket.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday June 29 2016, @10:54PM
finally, a robot overlord i can support ! ! !