$319 is what the City bills the average ticketed Chicago driver every year. Autopilot Pro takes that year apart.
Built by one person in Chicago. Citywide, 59% of Chicago tickets contested by mail get dismissed — the City's own records, not ours.
Across every Chicago ticket that can double, the fine averages $68 and the late price averages $131 — about $62 added for doing nothing. Yours will differ by violation — a street-cleaning ticket is $60, a missing city sticker is far more. And it is not rare: of every Chicago ticket the City got paid 2022–2024, nearly 1 in 5 was paid at the late price — 1,682,488 of them. Nobody mails you a reminder on day 24.
Not an estimate — the City's own billing, from FOIA records 2022–2024, divided across every ticketed plate: $198 in fines, $100 in late fees, $5 in boots and $16 in tows. 7 in 10 Chicago drivers get ticketed, so it is probably your year too.
Late fees, the boot, and the tow and storage that follow a boot. If a ticket gets past us, we pay them.
City sticker and plate, filed before they lapse.
Where you parked, plus the tows we never caused — tow zones, snow routes, winter overnight bans. The app warns you, and contests what slips through. These tows we warn about; we don't pay them.
A year, per ticketed Chicago plate. Fines, late fees, boots and tows.
A year, or $10/month. Cancel anytime. On an average year that is $107 of penalties underwritten.
The penalties we guarantee average $107 a year — more than the subscription costs. The ticket is the ceiling. Every dollar the city stacks on top of it is ours.
Every one of these is a Chicago ticket we contested and the City dismissed, and every one is backed by the City's own record of the decision — we don't count a win we can't prove. We are a small operation and this is a small number. It is also a real one.
In an average year that is $107 of penalties guaranteed, $37 of renewals we file, and $175 the app warns you about before it happens — with a mailed defense for whatever lands anyway.
Nothing to remember. No forms, no hearing dates, no calendar. You never tell the app you parked — it works that out — and the letters, the payments and the renewals happen whether you thought about them or not.
A street only gets swept if the cars move. Every alert we send is one more car out of the way — the sweeper gets the block, the snow route stays clear. And when a ticket is wrong, somebody should say so: we check yours against the City's own records and contest the ones that don't hold up, instead of letting you quietly pay for something you didn't do.
Never let a fine double. Never let a sticker lapse. Never get the ticket in the first place. Most people do none of it.
On average the fine is $68 and the late price is $131 — about $62 added for doing nothing, on whatever your ticket happens to be. We pay yours from your own card before that, cameras included. Unpaid tickets are what get you booted; we keep you off the list.
Miss one and we pay it— boot, tow and storage included. Tows we didn't cause sit outside on purpose.
We file your city sticker and plate early, so the ticket never gets written. A person checks every one.Emissions has to be you — we'll tell you when.
You never tell the app you parked — it works that out, then warns you when the spot goes bad. Snow ban and overnight ban are the two that stop a tow, not just a ticket.
These are about the alerts we have been running longest, at mystreetcleaning.com — the same alerts that come with Autopilot Pro. Posted as written.
Love the simplicity. Solving a very specific, clear problem.
It's pretty damn smooth.
You're doing the lords work.
I've noticed in my neighborhood that the streets without trees tend to have many more tickets on the street cleaning day. My theory and own experience are that they don't have as many places to hang the warning signs.
This is such a useful tool!