Stanford Student Creates Intelligent App to Help You Fight Parking Tickets

Joshua Browder, a 19-year-old student who attends Stanford, created an artificial intelligence bot that is designed to help you find technicalities and loopholes that could get you out of paying for a parking ticket, according to NBC.

The app, appropriately named DoNotPay, is a chatbot-style AI that uses a question-and-answer method to help customers of the service challenge parking citations.

By asking yes-or-no questions about the circumstances of a citation, DoNotPay provides answers that could be used to appeal a traffic ticket in court. The app also helps guide you through the steps to file — and win — that appeal, according to Slate.

The app was first released in London last fall. But as of March, the app is now available to residents in New York — a city that, in 2015, collected a record $1.9 billion in parking fees and traffic fines, according to DNAinfo.

Since then, it has reportedly helped users in both New York and London successfully challenge 160,000 tickets out of 250,000, according to VentureBeat.

In addition to fighting parking tickets, DoNotPay’s website currently has a feature that allows users to prove that they disclosed an HIV positive or negative status “for free in under 30 seconds.”

Browder told Slate that he hopes to expand DoNotPay’s coverage area to Seattle. He also wants to develop other similar applications, including an AI that could help users get compensated for flight delays, as well as a bot that could help refugees apply for asylum.