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Autopilot America helps you avoid parking tickets in Chicago. Get automatic
alerts for street cleaning, snow emergencies, and other parking violations
before they happen.
Pair your car via Bluetooth and Autopilot America automatically detects when
you park. It checks your location against Chicago parking restrictions and
sends you a notification if you're at risk of getting a ticket.
Features:
- Automatic parking detection via Bluetooth car pairing
- Real-time street cleaning and snow emergency alerts
- Background location monitoring so you never miss a warning
- Simple setup - just pair your car and go
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more Fixed invalid date error when searching address by date and time.
2.0.37 Jul 16
- New Profile screen (person icon, top-right of Home) — single place to edit name, email, phone, plate/VIN, home + mailing address, and renewal dates.
- Renamed bottom tabs: "Address" → Dashboard, "Car" → Alerts.
- Removed the duplicate phone-number field; phone now lives only in Profile, and Call Alerts links to it.
- Cleaned up in-app links/labels that pointed to the old tab names.
2.0.36 Jul 9
Better speed-camera alerts
- Earlier heads-up — a gentle pre-warning further out, so you have more time to ease off the gas.
- "Slow down" alerts — approach a speed camera too fast and the alert now tells you to slow down, instead of just noting the camera's there.
- Hear your speed — keep AutoPilot open while you drive and it calls out how fast you're going as you near a camera.
2.0.35 Jun 26
A big reliability update for parking detection — most of it under the hood:
• Far fewer false "you parked" alerts. Fixed several cases where stop-and-go traffic, a long red light, or walking away from your car could trigger a wrong parking notification.
• Better recovery. If iOS shuts the app down, it now wakes itself on your next drive so it won't miss your next park — including the first drive right after an app update.
• No more "couldn't find your street" timeouts. Parking checks keep retrying until they pin down your block.
• Smarter meter alerts. We now tell you how late meter enforcement really runs, and alert you even outside normal hours when it matters.
• Clearer permit-zone info on your parking card, and the home screen now leads with the actual restriction (like street cleaning) instead of a generic count.
• Quieter notifications — removed the extra "checking the rules" and pinpoint pings.
• Fixed an app-icon badge that could get stuck showing a number.
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2.0.34 Jun 18
• More reliable background detection — the app now re-wakes itself when you
drive away from where you parked, so trips are less likely to be missed
after your phone has been sitting idle.
• Fewer false "you parked" alerts — better handling of stop-and-go traffic
and spots you only walked to.
• Parking history refreshes the moment you open the tab, so automatically
detected parks always show up.
• Clearer tow-alert wording.
2.0.33 Jun 12
• Traffic jams no longer fool the app. Sitting still in stop-and-go traffic for a couple minutes used to trigger a false "you parked" alert — and could make the app miss where you actually parked a few minutes later. Fixed.
• Your real parking spot is no longer lost. Even if the app briefly gets the wrong idea, it now reliably catches your genuine parking spot.
• The app stays awake in the background better, so it keeps watching your car instead of going to sleep and missing a park.
2.0.32 Jun 7
Smarter meter alerts. When you park at a meter, the alert now tells you how late the meter runs (for example, "enforced until 11 PM") and reminds you to move before your posted time limit, not just to pay. Paying for two hours won't save you if the meter runs later or the limit is shorter.
Metered + permit zones. If a spot is both a paid meter and a residential permit zone, you'll now see the meter details too, so you're never caught off guard.
More accurate automatic parking detection, with fewer false "you parked" alerts while you're still driving in stop-and-go traffic.
Your parked spot shows a real street address, not raw GPS coordinates.
Reliability and stability improvements, including clearer parking notifications and better recovery after the app has been running in the background.
2.0.30 Jun 6
- Updated subscription plans and pricing
- Permit-zone parking hours matched block by block to the City's ordinances, plus "Save just for me" to set a block's hours for your own account
- Hot-block warnings before you leave your car
- Quieter, smarter parking notifications
- Emissions-test reminders so a missed test never becomes a fine
- Reliability and stability fixes
2.0.27 May 30
• Real City permit-zone hours, matched block-by-block to the actual ordinances
• Hot-block warnings before you leave your car
• Speed-camera alerts now cut through Driving Focus
• Quieter, smarter parking notifications + emissions-test reminders
• Reliability and stability fixes
2.0.24 May 27
Fixes sign-in with Apple and Google for new and returning users. Stability improvements for camera alerts.
2.0.23 May 24
v2.0.20 — Better camera alerts, smarter permit-zone info, fewer false parking detections
Camera alerts
- Camera alerts now respect direction of travel. We resynced our camera list from the City of Chicago's own data, so an eastbound-only camera no longer buzzes you when you're driving west.
- You get more heads-up. At 35 mph that's a ~200m advance notice instead of ~155m.
- iPhone: Camera tones now play even when your phone is on silent (the normal driving setup). You'll hear a distinct sound for speed vs red-light cameras through your car speakers, Bluetooth, or headphones.
Permit-zone hours — from real data, not guesses
- We swapped our old StreetView-based permit-zone hours for the City Clerk's own FOIA-released schedule — the exact data the city uses to print signs and check applications.
- When you tap a destination, the app now shows the actual restricted hours ("6 PM – 6 AM, "permit zone."
- Zones that are restricted 24/7 are now clearly labeled.
Parking detection — fewer false "you parked here" moments
- The parking guess freezes the moment your phone notices you walking away from the car, so the saved address doesn't jump after you've gotten out.
- "Phantom drives" — where GPS jitters but you haven't actually moved — are now caught and discarded. UI, kick off a fresh EAS build from the current v2.0.20 SHA (263e4f6f).
2.0.20 May 21
A complete visual refresh:
• Brand-new app icon
• Refreshed typography on every screen
• Redrawn icon set throughout
• Refined colors and proportions to
match autopilotamerica.com
Smarter notifications:
• Street cleaning escalates to a
critical alert the moment cleaning
actually starts (was previously a
generic warning)
• "Cleaning tomorrow" warning at park
time when you park late the
night before a sweep
• Meter alerts now include your
ParkChicago zone number — pay from
your phone without walking back to
the post
• Meter zones warn you BEFORE they go
hot, not at the moment
• Distinctive notification titles per
restriction type, not just
generic "parking alert"
Better detection:
• Faster parking-confirm tap response
(was a 30+ second delay)
• Fewer false park detections from
phone handling vs engine idle
• Improved street disambiguation at
intersections
• One-tap "I parked here" / "Wrong
address" right on the banner
• Wider confirm window — the "Is this
correct?" prompt now stays
visible for an hour after parking,
not just 20 minutes
Plus reliability fixes for city
sticker renewals, ticket contesting,
and address-drift detection.
2.0.19 May 14
- One-tap "Yep, that's where I parked" — when the app detects you parked, the banner now lets you confirm or fix the address right there, instead of digging
into a menu.
- "Wrong Address" path on the parking banner — if the auto-detected spot is off, tap once to correct it. No more wrestling with the map to fix a bad guess.
- Parking banner sticks around for an hour — the confirm banner used to disappear after 20 minutes. Now it stays for 60, so you can still fix the address if
you didn't see it right away.
- Fresh look — app colors and fonts now match autopilotamerica.com (Space Grotesk for headlines, Inter for body), so the app and the website feel like the
same product.
2.0.16 May 13
• Fixed Google sign-in failing for new users with empty token errors
• Sign-in now recovers from stale Google sessions and SDK timing races
• User cancellations no longer show as system errors
• Backend now logs auth failures so we catch sign-in issues automatically
2.0.15 May 3
• iPhone push notifications now work for the first time — you'll start getting reminders before street cleaning, meter expirations, and sticker renewals.
Previously broken since launch.
• Drag the pin to fix it. If we got your parking spot wrong, drag the marker on the map to where you actually parked — we'll re-check that spot for street
cleaning, meters, permit zones, and snow rules so the warnings match.
• Type the right street if we got it wrong. The "wrong street" prompt now has address autocomplete, just like the website.
• New: Meter alerts. 30 minutes before your meter's max time runs out, and again in the morning when overnight free meter zones turn back on.
• New: City sticker and license plate renewal reminders for paid members. After signup, we'll ask for your renewal dates so we can ping you 30, 14, 7, and 1
day before.
• Parking checks are faster and won't hang anymore.
• Android: better parking detection. Uses your phone's motion activity as a backup signal when GPS is unsure.
• Fewer wrong-street pickups in dense areas — fixed the Fullerton and Wolcott edge cases.
• Less likely to get stuck on a stale login if your session expires.
• Bluetooth and CarPlay now share one detection path, so the same car works the same way in both.
• Fullscreen map close button is tappable again.
Parking detection is more reliable, especially in tricky city blocks where nearby parallel streets can confuse location snaps. Low-confidence parking results are now flagged more clearly so you can verify the block instead of trusting a weak guess.
We also improved parking feedback. If Autopilot gets the block wrong, it’s easier to correct, and those corrections now help us measure and improve parking accuracy over time.
2.0.12 Apr 30
Address accuracy improvements on near-intersection parks. Pin-drag now locks the map while you drag and re-checks parking rules at the new spot — great for fixing a wrong block. New permit-zone display shows what's active now, what starts soon, and zones you're in but aren't restricted by right now. New "Anchored" badge marks spots where we're using your previous correction.
2.0.10 Apr 28
We kept getting the wrong street when you parked near an intersection. This release fixes that at the core.
• Smarter street detection — now we use your entire driving path, not just where you stopped, to figure out which street you're on. If you drove down Wolcott
for three blocks before parking, we'll correctly say "Wolcott" even when the stop point is at a corner.
• Android: Google's 3D GPS corrections are now active in Chicago. These alone reduce wrong-side-of-street errors by up to 75% in urban
• iOS: captures your full approach path so the backend can tell which street you were actually on before you parked, instead of guessing from a single
• Cleaner "outside Chicago" message across the app — no more confusing parking info when you're in the suburbs.
2.0.8 Apr 23
Improved Parking detection, block number accuracy improvement, substantial UI clean up to mobile app search map, /check-your-street page enhancements, fixed notification dedup breaking for all notifications types, daily cron runs precise number of times not loose
2.0.6 Apr 18
Improved parking detection accuracy:
- Fixed false metered parking alerts at intersections
- Better heading detection for more accurate street snapping
- Parking history now reliably
2.0.5 Apr 15
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.0.4 Apr 13
Settings cleanup: removed the redundant camera alerts master toggle and fixed toggle styling for consistency.
2.0.3 Apr 8
Fixed invalid date error when searching address by date and time.
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