KITT

:KARR redirects here. For the Kirkland, Washington radio station, see KARR (AM).

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Kirkland, Washington - KARR (AM)

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KITT is the name of the car in the television series Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff, playing Michael Knight. The name is an abbreviation for Knight Industries Two Thousand and is a highly-customized Pontiac Trans Am.

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Knight Rider - David Hasselhoff - Michael Knight - Pontiac Trans Am

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KITT is Knight Industries' second attempt at a car with artificial intelligence. Its predecessor was KARR, an abbreviation for Knight Automated Roving Robot. KARR was programmed to primarily protect itself at all costs, but this proved to be hazardous to Knight Industries' interests, so KARR was deactivated and KITT introduced in its place.

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Unlike KARR, KITT is programmed to primarily protect it's owner Michael Knight at all costs as well as all human life. This is made clear in the pilot movie/first two parter where Knight asks his new boss Devon Miles if KITT will protect anyone driving it. Devon's answer is that KITT's primary function is the preservation of human life, and Michael's in particular.

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Among KITT's features were Turbo Boost, for bursts of speed or for jumping the Trans Am over obstacles; normal, auto, and pursuit modes for driving; and perhaps KITT's most distinct and recognizable aspect, a scanner which featured thermographic, infrared, or whatever was dictated by that particular week's plot. As the series progressed and computer graphics and effects became cleaner, an EKG feature was added. KITT's hull was coated with a "molecular bonded shell", which would resist artillery, automatic, and small-arms fire. At one point KITT utilized a laser to combat Goliath, Garthe Knight's super tractor-trailer.

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Scanner - Thermographic - Infrared - Computer graphics - EKG - Laser - Tractor-trailer

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When asked about KITT's whereabouts, David Hasselhoff indicates that, like Roy Rogers did to Trigger, KITT is now stuffed and mounted in Hasselhoff's living room.

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Roy Rogers - Trigger

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The voice for KITT was provided by William Daniels.

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