Coder, 19, Builds Chatbot That Fights Parking Tickets

When Stanford University student Joshua Browder began accumulating numerous parking tickets in London for minor violations last year, he realized he needed to do something. "After the fourth ticket, my parents said to me, 'You're on your own. We're not going to help you anymore,'" the Britain native told NBC News. Not wanting to pay, and upset with "local governments trying to get away with murder," the computer science and economics student wrote an appeal letter. To his, and his parents', surprise, it worked.