[mahyarm]

Using this app wastes less time than the official ways to pay the ticket. That alone is valuable. Automated contesting is also good too.

Also if you've read the article you can see cities are not angels either. If you have seen what happens in traffic court when judges don't even want to hear 3 sentences of your evidence and just declare you guilty anyway. The appeal process after that is expensive. You waste a ton of time and money going to that court, while you have a job. And maybe needing to hire lawyers just so you can get heard.

It's an exploitive system that takes advantage of asymmetries and it deserves to be challenged.