Founding Member Offer · Chicago Only
Chicago billed the average ticketed driver $319 in a year.
Autopilot is $99.
We auto-contest every ticket, freeze the late-fee clock before fines double, attempt your city-sticker renewal before it lapses, and warn you on your phone if you've parked anywhere that's going to get ticketed. Unlimited tickets, all year.
Stop paying Chicago — $99/year →Cancel anytime · No contract · Chicago only
🛡️ Backed by The Better-Off Guarantee — you pay the face value of the ticket, we pay the late penalty, and pay you back for the boot, tow and storage after a boot.
$319 → $99
The math is stupid. You're already losing the $319. You just have to choose how much of it goes to the City vs. how much stays in your pocket.
What Chicago does to you in a year
5,246,241
parking & camera tickets the City issues in a year
14,373
tickets per day. 599 per hour. One every 6 seconds.
$429M
total billed to Chicago drivers (original fines + late fees)
$140M
of that was JUST late fees — automatic, mailed when you miss the 25-day window
44,014
vehicles booted in 2025. Boot fee: $100. Then tow + storage on top.
61,204
vehicles towed in 2025. Average bill: $150 tow + $20–35/day storage.
883,240
Chicago drivers got at least one ticket. That's 75% of every car registered in Chicago.
Here's what the average ticketed Chicago driver is billed in a year
Ticket fines (face value)
$198
Late fees (when you missed the 25-day window)
$100
Boot fees (your share of $4.4M citywide)
$5
Tow + storage (your share of $13.9M citywide)
$16
Total billed per ticketed Chicago driver
$319
($175M Chi-zip face fines + $88M Chi-zip late fees + $4.4M boots + 75% of $18.4M citywide tows) ÷ 883,240 Chicago plates ticketed in a year; dollars are the 3-yr average 2022–24. Sources: DOF FOIA F118906, F120036, F136386; DSS FOIA F136267.
Why nobody fights back
94% of Chicago parking tickets are never contested.
Not because the tickets are good. Because the process is hostile. Write a defense letter. Find the legal grounds. Mail it before day 21. Hope a judge agrees. Most people pay because it's not worth their time.
If you DO mail in a contest, you win 59% of the time.
That's the FOIA-verified mail-in dismissal rate across 316,144 decided contests, 2023–2025. The City dismisses more than half of properly written mail contests. Almost nobody knows this. Almost nobody bothers.
Hiring a ticket lawyer costs $150–$300 per letter.
Per ticket. The average ticketed Chicago driver got 2.2 tickets last year. Hire it out and you're at $400–$700 for a year of defense. Autopilot is $99 for unlimited tickets.
What you get for $99
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Auto-detection — we pull every ticket from the City portal
You don't have to know about it
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Auto-contesting — Claude AI drafts your defense letter from weather, Street View, 311 complaints, construction permits, and camera-malfunction history
$150–$300/ticket if you hired a lawyer
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Auto-mail — we print and USPS-mail your contest on day 17, four days before the legal deadline
No printer, no stamp, no hearing
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Late-fee freeze — the moment we file a contest, the City legally can't accrue late fees on that ticket
Up to $250 saved per ticket
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City sticker deadline tracking — flagged 30 days out, auto-filing opt-in (in testing)
Avoids the $200 city sticker ticket
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Plate sticker tracking — we watch your IL plate renewal date and alert before it lapses
Avoids $60 expired-plate ticket
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Real-time mobile alerts for street cleaning, snow routes, permit zones, meters, red light + speed cameras
Warns you before all 10 of the top 10 Chicago ticket types
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Autopilot warns you before most of the tickets Chicago writes
Warned before 91.7% of Chicago tickets
The arithmetic
One auto-dismissed ticket pays for the year.
The average ticketed driver gets 2.2.
The average ticketed driver gets 2.2.
"But what if…"
“What if I don't get many tickets?”
About 7 in 10 Chicago-registered drivers got at least one ticket in 2025 (883,240 of ~1.29M). The other ~30% are mostly cars that don't move. If you drive in Chicago, you're in the ticketed cohort. The only question is whether you're in the 10% who contest or the 90% who pay.
“Aren't most tickets my fault?”
59% of properly-contested Chicago tickets get dismissed. The City over-issues by design — bad signs, broken meters, sweepers that didn't actually run, cameras that fired at the wrong moment. The system assumes you won't fight. When you do, you win more than half the time.
“I'm careful — I don't park illegally.”
1,415,295 speed camera tickets in Chicago in 2025. 493,218 red-light tickets. 520,636 expired-meter tickets. 323,143 street-cleaning tickets. Careful drivers get all of these. The cheapest ticket is the one Autopilot warns you about before it gets written.
“What if Autopilot misses something?”
We auto-detect from the City portal and mail a contest by day 17. If a ticket somehow slips through, you still avoid the late fee because filing a contest freezes the clock by ordinance — that part isn't probabilistic, it's mandated by Chicago Municipal Code 9-100-050.
You're going to keep paying
$319 or pay $99.
$319 or pay $99.
That's the whole pitch. Chicago has been billing you anyway. Decide how much of it goes to the City vs. how much stays with you.
Become a Founding Member — $99/year →Cancel anytime · No contract · Chicago only
🛡️ Backed by The Better-Off Guarantee — you pay the face value of the ticket, we pay the late penalty, and pay you back for the boot, tow and storage after a boot.