{"id":206341,"date":"2026-05-30T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:18:08","slug":"new-technology-will-let-pittsburgh-drivers-remove-boots-from-immobilized-vehicles-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206341\/","title":{"rendered":"New technology will let Pittsburgh drivers remove boots from immobilized vehicles \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Drivers can now remove a boot from their car without waiting for law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh Parking Authority is getting smart boots through a partnership with a company called PayLock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">With this new technology, drivers of an immobilized vehicle can remove the boot by scanning a QR code and paying outstanding fines on their phone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The driver is then responsible for returning the boot to one of three drop-off sites in the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers can now remove a boot from their car without waiting for law enforcement. The Pittsburgh Parking Authority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4029,2586,90733,2663,79,90734,90735,90736,14273,7356,4033,15357,90737,22074,90738,742,21101,23200,7700,26790,73,75,74,5608,206,16109,787,90739,6014,7363,3860,13471,9391,7365,42568,209,1621,6972,90740,1704,2155,22085,4491,90741,90742,7368,6967,15777,7369,29881,5384],"class_list":["post-206341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-black","tag-block","tag-boot","tag-car","tag-city","tag-clamp","tag-clamped","tag-clamping","tag-closeup","tag-enforcement","tag-equipment","tag-fine","tag-forbidden","tag-illegal","tag-illegally","tag-law","tag-lock","tag-metal","tag-park","tag-penalty","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-place","tag-police","tag-problem","tag-punishment","tag-restricted","tag-road","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-steel","tag-stop","tag-street","tag-style","tag-theft","tag-ticket","tag-tire","tag-tire-clamp","tag-traffic","tag-transportation","tag-trapped","tag-travel","tag-tyre","tag-unlawful","tag-urban","tag-vehicle","tag-violation","tag-warning","tag-wheel","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}