His friends are Michael Knight, Bonnie Barstow, Devon Miles, April Curtis & RC3. KITT is the only car to date who has shown human emotion. disguised as a hologram of a mysterious man called Shadow. K.I.T.T.'s AI was later transferred by Michael into the Knight 4000 and promptly served FLAG as the K.I.T.T.'s replacement. His AI system was recovered by Michael and was installed in the dashboard of his 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. Or at least I was.'īy the time of the events of Knight Rider 2000, K.I.T.T.'s AI is back in the hands of FLAG but the Knight 2000 has been dismantled and parts sold off to medical research companies. A man appears and tells them 'I'm Michael Knight. The team goes to the location and finds a tombstone marked 'Michael Knight R.I.P. They discover a message: longitude and latitude coordinates. As soon as he does, the holographic image of Shadow disappears. A sphere-shaped electronic casing labeled 'K.I.T.T.' rises from the center console and Mobius removes it. Mobius says that he's taking Shadow with him. Shadow tells Mobius that it was only a matter a time before Mobius figured out who he was. He enters the situation room, where Shadow is waiting for him. Later On Sky One, Mobius activates a working mind control device and rolls unnoticed past Gil the mechanic. Kyle and Jenny narrowly escape, leaving Shadow trapped behind. As Shadow is about to reveal Mobius' next target, the building starts to explode. Shadow tells Kyle and Jenny everything that Mobius has done to them has been related and Mobius has been trying to get to him. Although they are suspicious, Kyle and Jenny go to meet Shadow while the rest of the team waits outside. (as Shadow) calls for a secret meeting with Team Knight Rider in an abandoned office building. He then began posing as a mysterious man named Shadow trying to help the Team Knight Rider. K.I.T.T.'s main CPU unit had apparently been housed inside Sky One without anyone's knowledge, most likely placed there by Michael or Devon. Devon's answer is that K.I.T.T.'s primary function is the preservation of human life, and Michael's in particular. This is made clear in the pilot episode when Michael asks Devon Miles if K.I.T.T. is programmed primarily to protect Michael and all human life at all costs. was given to his new operator Michael Knight (the new identity of Michael Long). was later deactivated and placed in storage while K.I.T.T. was programmed for self-preservation, but this proved to be dangerous to the Foundation's interests.

His predecessor was K.A.R.R., the Knight Automated Roving Robot. was in fact the second vehicle built by Knight Industries with an artificial intelligence. However, Wilton saw better use for 'him' in the Foundation's crime-fighting crusade and eventually the system was installed in the vehicle. K.I.T.T.'s main cybernetic processor was first installed in a mainframe computer used by the United States government in Washington D.C. was conceived and designed by the late Wilton Knight, a brilliant but eccentric billionaire and the founder of the ' Foundation for Law and Government', (commonly shortened to 'FLAG') and its parent Knight Industries. In the original series' history, K.I.T.T.

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