LONDON – Drivers of the UK, rejoice: a sixth form student from London has devised the perfect solution to your parking-related woes.

18-year-old Joshua Browder, who is leaving London for a place at Stanford University this month and is clearly something of a budding tech genius, created donotpay.co.uk after falling victim to a series of parking tickets – a website that automatically generates parking ticket appeal letters using previously successful defences as templates.

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"Over the past two years, I have received around thirty parking tickets for trivial reasons," said Browder in an email to Mashable. "I have had to spend around one hundred hours of valuable study time writing appeals to these tickets, many of which have been successful.

"I have come to realise that councils issue tickets first and ask questions later. Unfortunately, many recipients of these tickets don’t have the time, legal knowledge or energy to appeal."

Browder's free-to-use website aims to provide a solution to this.

After logging in, you're asked to choose the reason why you think you shouldn't have to pay your fine.

A few quick details later, your letter is automatically generated.

"The site not only saves time, but also ensures that drivers have the best possible chance of winning their appeals," said Browder. "I created the service after scanning thousands of pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and consulting a leading traffic lawyer."

Mashable has reached out to Browder with additional questions about the site, and we will update if we receive a response.

UPDATED 7 SEPTEMBER 14:50: Browder has been in touch to give us some more information about how he started the project, and how he hopes to expand his website in the future.

"I started by reviewing Freedom of Information Act documents submitted by other parking advocates," he explained. "These documents listed the types of appeals that were most successful. I picked the top twelve most successful appeals and created an algorithm that accepts information from the user and inserts these details into an appeal. I also consulted a local parking and traffic lawyer to get information about previously successful cases for each type of appeal to include."

Although the website didn't gain much traction at first, Browder described how traffic sky-rocketed after first the Huffington Post, and then more and more news websites, started picking up on it. "It has been truly overwhelming," he said. "I currently have tens of thousands of users. All the success came to a head when I was at a petrol station filling up my car, and someone recognised me from the TV."

"I plan to expand the site not only to other countries, since I have had numerous requests to expand to Ireland and Scotland, but also to other areas of consumer law. For example, challenging Congestion Charge tickets in London and eviction notices from banks."