Parking tickets are the sorry . woefully , the burden of challenge a just the ticket is far neat than just give the damn thing . But what if an artificially intelligent robot could do the dirty work for you ?
DoNotPay , a costless - to - use artificially well-informed attorney chatbot , is meant to do exactly that . accord to a report fromThe Guardian , the bot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets in New York and London in 21 calendar month .
The service work like this : It walk you through a serial of questions — such as whether signs were clearly visible — to witness out whether an appeal is possible . Once it ’s set whether or not you’re able to attract , it walks you through the unconscious process of actually take exception the fine . Then you sit back and hold off for the legal system to make a judgement on your call .
The service of process was created by 19 - twelvemonth - previous Stanford student Joshua Browder , who became frustrated with the entreaty unconscious process after racking up 30 parking tickets in and around London . The ego - taught computer programmer realized how formulaic the entreaty process is and decided to create a simple bot to help multitude through the entire trial by ordeal . After letting admirer and family use it , he decided to open up it up to the public — for spare .
DoNotPay currently has a 64 per centum succeeder rate , which is incredibly gamey . “ I created it for a few menage and friends and could never have imagine that in a few short months it would have appealed over $ 4 million , ” Browder say in a recentblog stake . “ The administration does n’t wish me very much , but people with parking ticket do ! ”
Although the serve is being marketed as “ the world ’s first robot attorney , ” this is n’t the first time someone has tried to fight back legal battles with technology . An app calledFixedlaunched in 2014 with a similar promise , only to be immobilize by city political science one year later . In San Francisco , the city ’s transfer government agency was so frustrated with the influx of appeals , employees went as far asshutting off the fax machineto disrupt the number of tickets being challenge .
For now , DoNotPay is only available in New York and London , but Browder want to wreak the military service to Seattle next . He also wants to add trajectory delay recompense and want to help refugees navigating foreign government activity process . Whether Browder ever construct those supererogatory features stay on to be seen , but what ’s abundantly well-defined is that he already made chatbotsway more useful .
[ The Guardian ]
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