By Police1 Staff
LONDON — Since launching in early 2014, the DoNotPay app has helped users overturn 160,000 parking tickets.
The service, available in London and New York, has been billed as “the world’s first robot lawyer,” reports The Guardian. It has taken on 250,000 cases and successfully appealed more than $4 million in parking tickets.
The free DoNotPay app helps users contest parking tickets by navigating a simple interface.
A screenshot of the app in action. (DoNotPay Image)
Created by 19-year-old Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay works by asking users to answer basic questions about the conditions leading up to their ticket. The app will use this info to generate a printable appeal that can be sent to court.
It always brightens my day to receive these emails. I wish the local governments would just follow the rules pic.twitter.com/1gz6NjYSs3
— Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) June 26, 2016
DoNotPay says it has plans to expand to Seattle next.