DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:45AM from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Khari Johnson, writing for VentureBeat:A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder. The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March. In recent years and decades, residents of The Big Apple have seen a persistent increase in traffic fines. A record $1.9 billion in traffic fines was issued by the City of New York in 2015. Since the first version of the bot was released in London last fall, 160,000 of 250,000 tickets have been successfully challenged with DoNotPay, Browder said. "I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society," said Browder. "These people aren't looking to break the law. I think they're being exploited as a revenue source by the local government." Browder, who's 19, hopes to extend DoNotPay to Seattle this fall.

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NY is exploiting the poor for revenue? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-28 11:12 · Score: 0, Troll

Who's really surprised that NY is exploiting the poor for revenue?
Why the hell do you think Eric Garner was choked to death? BECAUSE HE WAS SELLING THINGS OUTSIDE OF THE GOVERNMENT-MANDATED "GIMMEE MOAH MONAY!!!" CHANNEL."
And his punishment was death.
I guess Eric tried to not "pay his fair share".
Why the hell do you think Uber and AirBNB are taking off? They're avoiding the overweening state.
Gotta wonder how anyone can think Uber is great and then go vote Democrat. Talk about an utter inability to FUCKING THINK...