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Instead, I want to build a tool that constantly scans your plate number for tickets and auto-pays them as soon as they show up to avoid late fees. ...Because I

Instead, I want to build a tool that constantly scans your plate number for tickets and auto-pays them as soon as they show up to avoid late fees. ...Because I deserved every ticket I've ever received.

will_brown 11y ago
You would be going after the right market, 95% of people just pay their ticket ;) However, by lowering the barrier to legal representation it is our goal that TicketTitan may increase the percentage of people who fight. For example, did you know that in most states by paying a ticket you admit guilt of the violation, which often results in points on your license and insurance increases? Fighting a ticket in Court, even without a lawful defense, may result in dismissal, no conviction, no points, no school, and/or reduced fines.
- thinkmoore 11y ago
  Or, as parent suggests, you could just take responsibility for your actions...
  - dajohnson89 11y ago
    Not every traffic ticket is fairly given.
    - cmurf 11y ago
      Exactly. See Chicago's photo red light debacle. And that's a case where otherwise I'd support the idea because running red lights kills and maims people with a much higher incidence than say speeding on the highway. The two speeding tickets I've gotten: one was deserved, but I still fought it for a minimal (standard) plea bargain reduction. The other, the cop flat out lied twice. He said he used pace method, yet was never going the speed I was (he came upon me like a bullet and I wasn't speeding); but then the ticket had the radar box checked, and I said I wouldn't sign it until he corrected it. He said he wasn't going to change the ticket and if I didn't sign it he'd take me to jail. Small podunk town in Kansas just randomly pulling people over to make money. Modern day highwayman.
      - op00to 11y ago
        ... Did you win?
  - wcummings 11y ago
    I didn't know HN loved cops so much. In what way is paying a ticket taking "responsibility for your actions"?
    - untog 11y ago
      Both you and the OP are being pretty black and white about this. Paying for speeding tickets you deserve because you were speeding is hardly "loving cops so much".
      - wcummings 11y ago
        Language like "deserve" is what I'm criticizing. Fighting a traffic ticket isn't a moral failure.
        untog 11y ago
        I mean, if you were speeding above the limit then you do "deserve" a ticket. Everyone is bound by the rules of the road.
  - ryguytilidie 11y ago
    This is SUCH an insufferable point of view. You're seriously of the belief that all traffic tickets are valid and that citizens who gasp dare to fight these tickets in court is are not responsible people?
    - thinkmoore 11y ago
      My comments parent did say fighting "without a lawful defense." I'm pretty sure that fighting an invalid ticket is a lawful defense.
jffry 11y ago
There was a startup doing just this - https://AutoPay.io https://AutoPay.io - that was advertising in Boston and Cambridge back in March. Amusingly, they seemed to follow around the people issuing tickets, and slipping fliers[1] under windshield wipers. There were a bunch of cars with a bright orange ticket under one wiper, and a bright green flier under the other. [1] http://i.imgur.com/5tgbhPY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5tgbhPY.jpg
bcherny 11y ago
i use fixed for this, they have a product called ticket guardian - http://www.fixed.com/ http://www.fixed.com/

will_brown 11y ago

You would be going after the right market, 95% of people just pay their ticket ;) However, by lowering the barrier to legal representation it is our goal that TicketTitan may increase the percentage of people who fight. For example, did you know that in most states by paying a ticket you admit guilt of the violation, which often results in points on your license and insurance increases? Fighting a ticket in Court, even without a lawful defense, may result in dismissal, no conviction, no points, no school, and/or reduced fines.

thinkmoore 11y ago
Or, as parent suggests, you could just take responsibility for your actions...
- dajohnson89 11y ago
  Not every traffic ticket is fairly given.
  - cmurf 11y ago
    Exactly. See Chicago's photo red light debacle. And that's a case where otherwise I'd support the idea because running red lights kills and maims people with a much higher incidence than say speeding on the highway. The two speeding tickets I've gotten: one was deserved, but I still fought it for a minimal (standard) plea bargain reduction. The other, the cop flat out lied twice. He said he used pace method, yet was never going the speed I was (he came upon me like a bullet and I wasn't speeding); but then the ticket had the radar box checked, and I said I wouldn't sign it until he corrected it. He said he wasn't going to change the ticket and if I didn't sign it he'd take me to jail. Small podunk town in Kansas just randomly pulling people over to make money. Modern day highwayman.
    - op00to 11y ago
      ... Did you win?
- wcummings 11y ago
  I didn't know HN loved cops so much. In what way is paying a ticket taking "responsibility for your actions"?
  - untog 11y ago
    Both you and the OP are being pretty black and white about this. Paying for speeding tickets you deserve because you were speeding is hardly "loving cops so much".
    - wcummings 11y ago
      Language like "deserve" is what I'm criticizing. Fighting a traffic ticket isn't a moral failure.
      - untog 11y ago
        I mean, if you were speeding above the limit then you do "deserve" a ticket. Everyone is bound by the rules of the road.
- ryguytilidie 11y ago
  This is SUCH an insufferable point of view. You're seriously of the belief that all traffic tickets are valid and that citizens who gasp dare to fight these tickets in court is are not responsible people?
  - thinkmoore 11y ago
    My comments parent did say fighting "without a lawful defense." I'm pretty sure that fighting an invalid ticket is a lawful defense.

jffry 11y ago

There was a startup doing just this - https://AutoPay.io https://AutoPay.io - that was advertising in Boston and Cambridge back in March. Amusingly, they seemed to follow around the people issuing tickets, and slipping fliers[1] under windshield wipers. There were a bunch of cars with a bright orange ticket under one wiper, and a bright green flier under the other. [1] http://i.imgur.com/5tgbhPY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5tgbhPY.jpg

bcherny 11y ago

i use fixed for this, they have a product called ticket guardian - http://www.fixed.com/ http://www.fixed.com/