Monday, July 22, 2024

First World Problems: "Billionaire Palmer Luckey keeps getting stuck in the elevator of his car mansion, lawsuit claims"

Should have gone with an Autostadt-style AutoTurme.

From Business Insider, July 22: 

  • Palmer Luckey claims the elevators and scissor lifts in his Newport Beach home keep getting stuck.
  • Luckey is suing the builders of his home, which is meant to house his automobile collection.
  • Luckey said the builders breached their contract, but the builders denied the claims. 

War weapons entrepreneur and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is suing the developers who helped build his Newport Beach, California mansion because people kept getting stuck in the scissor lifts and elevator in the home, a lawsuit claims.

Luckey purchased the mansion in 2017 for $3.8 million to house his "collection of automobiles and to have functioning scissor lifts so as to move these vehicles around and about the multi-level structure," the lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court said.

However, the lawsuit claims that the California builders installing the scissor lifts in Luckey's mansion — Custom Cabs, Inc. and W.T. Durant — used "non-compliant and substandard scissor lifts" in the home that operated slower than promised.

The lawsuit also claims the elevator "repeatedly stopped its vertical motion without warning and trapped its occupants inside."....

....MUCH MORE 

Our last couple visits with Mr. Luckey were focused on his drones and counter-drones:

Meanwhile in Wolfsburg:

https://images.interestingengineering.com/img/iea/5Z3G8nVwmE/6512820041-e5eb7a51eb-c.jpg

—via Interesting Engineering.

Also:


Additionally VW has the autolift in Slovakia:

https://i0.wp.com/unofficialnetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-12.07.49-PM.jpg?fit=1200%2C685&ssl=1

—via Unofficial Networks