Five ways Knight Rider to the future predicted
Posted on 12-04-2014 at 11:52 by ricardo – 28 Comments”
The legendary tv-series from 1982 was a chain of automotive predictions. Michael Knight had KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) the future is in your hands.
Yesterday was David Hasselhoffs Pontiac Firebird 1986, under the hammer, a replica of the hyperintelligente KITT from Knight Rider. The offer began at $ 15,000, expected to approximately double to pick up, but eventually there was afgehamerd at $ 150,000. Approximately 110,000 euros. It gave us the idea bubbling: how much SciFi from the iconic series – 1982 t/m 1986 was broadcast, we find today or in the near future actually back in our fleet? Below our findings.
Car Collision Avoidance
Long before Volvo’s on-board systems were to automatically remacties to run with impending doom, was KITT able to get himself to stop, to bring or to yield to oncoming traffic. With ” Auto, Collision Avoidance activated, it was for KITT to be almost impossible to crash. Additionally, KITT effortlessly autonomous driving. Hello auto industry, it is 2014, we may also? Oh, wait.
Infrared Tracking Scope
The Hoff laughs at you mercedes benz cars with Night View Assist or BMW’s with Night Vision. These techniques are rolled out halfway through the previous decade – had Michael Knight in the early eighties, already coolly in his supercar to sit. It was a part of the advanced radar system that allows the surroundings in the dark map could be brought.
Emergency Braking System (EBS)
The cowardly spoilertjes that modern super – and hypercars expand to additional braking force to generate have nothing on Knight rider and KITT. With one press of a button, the patented EBS is activated, then there is half a car body panels to expand and the car in no-time at standstill. As rolled, excuse me, slowed down, KITT. Electromagnetic hyper-vacuum disc brakes helped there, of course, but that we have not yet encountered on a modern production car.
Comlink and a smartwatch
Perhaps the most iconic image of the 32-year-old tv series. Michael Knight, who coolly with his LCD AM radiohorloge talk and thus was USED for giving instructions. The watch contained a microcamera and a scanner, which was USED in turn the location of Michael could detect. Through apps you can now already numerous functions of your car remotely (see Tesla), but by smartwatch that is not yet the case. Mercedes and Pebble that, incidentally, will be available soon.
Artificial intelligence
The brain of KITT, a Knight 2000 microprocessor, and the cybernetic logic module made from the system a self-learning supercomputer that could talk, reasoning and actions performed. Admittedly, as far as the OS from Spike Jonze’s filmmeesterwerk HER are contemporary boordcumputers not yet, but with the advent of Apple’s CarPlay with Siri, Android and Windows (Cortana) for cars is that it is only a matter of time. Best cozy for the lone filerijder, on the road to have a conversation with your computer.
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Source: Knight Rider Legacy: The Unofficial Guide to the Knight Rider Universe
Gallery: KITT Replica auction
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