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No? The company has a mail address. Send them the notice and summons to court, just like you would for the owner of a regular vehicle.
Only a 1000 bucks? That’s just the cost of doing business to them.
Sure but if ”just the cost of doing business" becomes their official policy on this variety of traffic incident, they could end up paying $1000 a dozen times a day. That ads up pretty quickly.
Weigh that against how much it costs to develop, test, and deploy a fix. If you get fines like that 10 times every day, you could have spent all that money on developer wages and the problem would have been fixed in a month or two. If it’s only one ticket a month, it’s cheaper to leave it as it is.