Rights and Bureaucracy · Blog · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Writing a traffic ticket appeal with ChatGPT
A São Paulo dev fined for using hazard lights used ChatGPT to draft the appeal and got the fine canceled.
- Profession
- Driver
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Source
- blog.elzobrito.com ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
He analyzed the infraction notice, found an inconsistency and asked ChatGPT for a well-grounded appeal.
How it went
The fine was canceled, according to the author. The account does not include numbers.
Good to know
Check the CTB articles cited by the AI; don't invent facts. The infraction notice contains your personal data: remove the license plate and CPF before pasting.
The prompt
I received a fine for [description of the notice] on [date/place]. The facts are: [account]. Write a preliminary defense appeal to [agency], citing the applicable CTB articles and Contran Resolution, and list what I need to verify in the legislation.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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