City of Chicago · FOIA record 2022–2024

Chicago will bill drivers
$429 million a year.
Opt out.

7 in 10 Chicago cars were ticketed last year. The average ticketed driver loses $319. Autopilot Pro is the $99-a-year shield that watches your car, fights every ticket it can, and never lets a fine double.

$99 / year · $10 / month · Better-Off Guarantee

Exposure check

▹ Enter your plate to pull open tickets
Free · no account · results in seconds.
For every open ticket we show its mail-in dismissal rateand how we'd fight it — then you're one step from Pro.
$429M
billed to drivers in tickets & late fees, every year
FOIA · 3-yr avg 2022–24
7 in 10
Chicago cars got at least one ticket last year
FOIA · 883,240 plates
$319
average yearly loss for a ticketed Chicago driver
FOIA · per ticketed plate
The city's bet
93%

of parking tickets are never contested.

Drivers assume they'll lose, so they pay. That apathy is what funds the $429M machine — the city is counting on you not to bother.

What the law actually does
59%

of tickets contested by mail are dismissed.

From 287,532 decided Chicago hearings. When people fight — by mail, the way we do — they win more often than they lose. Autopilot fights every time.

01
WatchAlerts the moment you're at risk — so the ticket never happens.
02
FightEvery eligible ticket contested by mail, automatically.
03
ProtectPaid before it doubles. Stickers renewed before they lapse.
What Pro does

Three systems, one plate, zero effort from you.

Avoid the ticket. Fight the ones that land. Never let a fine double. Most people do none of it — Autopilot does all three.

System 01 · Watch

A heads-up the moment you're at risk.

The app tracks where your car is parked and alerts you the instant that spot becomes a risk — a meter that just turned on, your max time almost up, a camera-heavy block, or street cleaning and snow on your home street. You move the car before the ticket exists.

  • Live meter + max-time warnings
  • Red-light & speed camera zones
  • Street cleaning · snow ban · winter overnight
Move your car — street cleaning
Cleaning on the 2400 block of N Milwaukee starts at 9:00 AM. Move now to avoid a $60 ticket.
Autopilot · 7:42 AM
System 02 · Fight

Every eligible ticket, contested for you.

We scan the City's database for any ticket on your plate, build a violation-specific argument from real hearing data, and mail the contest before the 21-day deadline. No forms to fill out. No hearing to show up for.

  • Evidence pulled from 25+ sources
  • Weather · sweeper GPS · street view · 311
  • You approve before mailing, if you want
Contest letterMAILED
Ticket#ABC1234567
ViolationStreet cleaning
EvidenceSweeper GPS · weather
Deadline9 days early
✓ USPS · sent on your behalf
System 03 · Protect

Never let a fine double or a sticker lapse.

Ignore a Chicago ticket and the city doubles it — a $60 street-cleaning ticket becomes $120. When one is ruled liable, we pay it before that 25-day window closes, and we track your city sticker, plate, and emissions so a lapse never turns into a fine. You always get a heads-up before we touch your card.

44%

of Chicago's $429M ticket bill is late fees and sticker/plate tickets — the most preventable money in the whole system, and the slice we back with the Better-Off Guarantee: if one of those eligible non-camera tickets ever doubles or lands you at boot enforcement, just ask and your $99 comes back.

  • Auto-pay before the 25-day doubling window
  • Renewal reminders + 1-tap renew
  • Opt in and we renew the sticker for you
Late-fee shieldARMED
Ticket$60.00
If unpaid→ $120.00
We payDay 21 · before doubling
✓ You're notified 21 days ahead
The data edge

We don't guess which tickets to fight.

Mail-in dismissal rates by violation, straight from Chicago hearing records. We put the strongest case on the tickets that actually win — and help you avoid the ones that don't.

Case 01 · mail contest
Expired plates
87%
dismissal rate
Case 02 · mail contest
No city sticker
79%
dismissal rate
Case 03 · mail contest
Expired meter
68%
dismissal rate
Case 04 · mail contest
Disabled zone
61%
dismissal rate
Case 05 · mail contest
Residential permit
49%
dismissal rate
Case 06 · mail contest
Red light camera
28%
dismissal rate
Case 07 · mail contest
Street cleaning
25%
dismissal rate
Case 08 · mail contest
Speed camera
21%
dismissal rate
We auto-contest all of these. Every eligible one, every time.
Mail-in decided hearings 2023–2025 · n = 287,532 · low camera rates = why System 01 helps you avoid them
The math

You're already paying. The only question is how much.

Statistically likely, this year
$319
what the average ticketed Chicago driver loses to the city.
Autopilot Pro
$99
watch, fight & protect — everything included, all year.

Cap your losses at $99. And if we don't keep you better off, that comes back too.

One plan · everything included

Get protected.

Autopilot Pro
$99/yr
Less than one booted, doubled ticket.
Mobile app (iOS + Android) — real-time parking, camera & meter alerts
Street cleaning & snow-ban alerts for your block
Automatic plate monitoring across the City's database
Automatic contest letters — researched, written & mailed
Late-fee protection — paid before a fine can double
City sticker, plate & emissions renewal reminders — plus opt-in auto-renewal we file for you
The Better-Off Guarantee
Get Autopilot Pro — $99/yr
Cancel anytime · Better-Off Guarantee — end up worse off? Just ask and your $99 comes back.
Questions

Straight answers.

Stop automatically paying.

Chicago's ticket machine runs on drivers who assume they'll lose. You don't have to be one of them.