# @downinnadesert on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-31T16:00:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Down In The Desert🌵 (@downinnadesert) — https://gondola.cc/downinnadesert

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A 73 year old parking attendant at ASU says one of the food delivery robots on campus reversed into her leg and put her on the ground. She’s now suing the company that makes them.

Trudy Perez filed a personal injury complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court against Starship Technologies, alleging strict product liability and negligence. According to the filing, the six-wheeled rover crossed in front of her near the East Lemon Street entrance of the Apache Boulevard Parking Structure. As she walked behind it, the suit says the machine abruptly reversed without warning, struck her in the lower leg and sent her down hard.

The complaint claims she suffered severe, debilitating and permanent injuries that still require treatment. Her attorneys argue the rover’s self-driving software and sensors were in a defective and unreasonably dangerous condition, and that Starship was using the ASU campus as a testing ground to develop the technology.

Here’s the part with teeth. Arizona law requires any company operating a personal delivery device to have an agent actively monitoring it who can take physical control. The suit names both Starship and an unnamed remote operator, arguing that person either failed to intervene or actively steered the device backward into her path. It also claims the company failed to yield the right of way to a pedestrian.

Two things to keep straight. All of this is one side’s account from a complaint, and Starship has not publicly responded. And the incident itself happened back on September 22, 2023. What’s new is the lawsuit.

Anyone who’s walked the Tempe campus has dodged these things. Ever had a close call?

Via: FOX 10 Phoenix, Maricopa County Superior Court

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