A college freshman has invented a free “lawyer bot” to help people appeal parking tickets in New York and London – and it’s safe to say it’s wildly more successful than he could have imagined.
Joshua Browder, a London native who starts Stanford University in the fall, created software that understands human language enough to help people navigate the process of appealing a parking ticket, according to Forbes.
Since its launch, DoNotPay has appealed 250,000 tickets in London and New York. The bot got 160,000 of them overturned.
“When I got to the legal driving age of 18 I got a lot of parking tickets,” he admitted in a phone interview. “I started appealing them. Then I started helping my friends.”
He says he’s working on other “service bots” and using a host of human rights and civil lawyers to help answer questions.