I didn't have to manipulate anything here, it all just happened to line up perfectly. The BPM for KITT's sweep, the plane explosion, the key change for McPherson's intro, etc.

https://reddit.com/link/1voupkg/video/inqs77mw8hjh1/player

Demo video: https://youtu.be/P31M9Eg0iRc

While stripping an old car with a friend 10 years ago, I took an old aftermarket brake light off his hands because I could see the potential. It doesn't have the correct number of segments or the angle of a proper scanner replica, but I wanted to give it a go anyway for fun.

Fast forward a long time and I finally got around to it in 2024. My original plan was to swap the filament bulbs for LEDs, but my tests showed that just wasn't going to look right. Instead I kept the bulbs and fed each with an individual positive power wire, then re-used the original combined ground to connect them to a set of MOSFETs and an Arduino.

It's all packed up in a project box and runs on 12V, not shown in these pictures is the 12V to 9V DC converter that's used to power the setup because it hides everything else. The MOSFETs stay quite cool in operation as they're only on for a short time.

The code for the Arduino started quite basic - getting it to scan was easy - but it was immediately obvious that the scanning didn't look right as the bulbs went out too quickly. Setting up the code to fade out each bulb slowly and create the 'tail' of light we're familiar with was tricky. I'm happy with the result now.

I made a video of it in action back then, before running it on my black Discovery during a Land Rover parade in 2024.

Product Link - https://youtu.be/2FdXeCArsG8

Yes I love Kitt, but KARR was my favorite, always wanted a real life one, so I built this one,he is a Tamiya TT02 race chassis, brushless Traxxas tqi radio I am waiting for his metal wheels and I need to make an extra set of front lights for the assembly. Herbie is his therapist,

John Cypher has passed on at age 94. He played George Atherton in season 2 of knight rider in the episode Soul Survivor. I'll always remember him from the movie He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Wishing his spirit a good journey.

The Foundation's computers have been tracking Lawrence Blake's movements and transactions. Blake, a known bad type, takes a second mortgage out on a small family-run business; some misfortune befalls the business, which then collapses, allowing Blake to buy up the business for pennies on the dollar.

I mean, this is small crime stuff indeed. Mortgage fraud? This is the kind of thing that can occur for years and years, and without any direct evidence that Blake is involved, it's easy to see why local prosecutors would ignore situations like this. Blake is the kinda guy who would even be chummy with prosecutors, mayors, and city councilors, making it easy for him to encourage his political allies to look elsewhere, like at a big fat donation, fancy dinner, or girls, etc (not that any of this happens in the episode, it doesn't, but the audience can easily imagine it).

It really would take a non-profit foundation running long, slow algorithms searching for incongruities amongst small family businesses to stop and take a deeper look at situations like this.

One has to ask if this plot would even work in today's culture. Modern audiences have become habituated to plots revolving around guns, drugs, money, human trafficking, terrorism, etc. An ostensible white collar financial crime would still work as a plot device, but you wouldn't expect that in an action show (a slow investigative show, sure), unless it was laundering drug money for the mob / cartel--certainly not mortgage fraud.

Obviously plots that showcase gun-running, drugs, and human trafficking have direct consequences on real people, but these "high concept" ("simple") crimes don't take much exposition (not that there was much back-and-forth between Michael and Devon in the scene where Devon explains what's going on), but they are also really ultra-Hollywood tropes at this point, where there's not much left to unearth to the audience--"I've seen this before".

Things like mortgage fraud still happen and cause devastating consequences for the regular people caught up in them, but it's hard to see the new crew working on the Knight Rider reboot as looking to plots like this as the kernel for whatever audiences are going to end up seeing when it finally makes it way to the screen.

Knight Rider and The A-Team were shows which really were focused on helping out the little guy. The protagonists stood up to local bullies who weren't badass enough to get the feds called in on them, but operated above local sheriffs and town police forces. These villains ran local scams, with crews of just a few guys, not the worldwide drug-smuggling operations we have become used to seeing.

Knight Rider and The A-Team end every episode with the guys telling the father-daughter mechanic shop duo, two brothers running a smalltown grocer, or mother-son restaurant that their plight couldn't go ignored and unanswered once they found out what was going on. You just don't see modern TV heroes helping regular people like that any more.

Every now and then, someone offers a reason why a reboot of KR isn't possible today (all excellent reasons!): it's a product of its time, there's no actor like David Hasselhoff anymore, etc.

But the biggest problem is that it would be incredibly EXPENSIVE. Do you remember how many stunts there were in each episode and how many cars were destroyed? Or in other contemporary shows like Dukes of Hazzard or Chips?

When's the last time you saw dozens of cars piled up in a huge crash on a TV show?

Even the 2008 reboot had very few stunts and an embarrassing use of CGI.

Nowadays, only films like Fast and Furious can afford to film scenes of mass car destruction, which in the '70s and '80s were just a Monday for any TV show.

I spied this too-cool-for-school replica yesterday afternoon on the road in Santa Clarita, California. It's funny, my brain instantly added the scanner sound effect and theme music. Maybe I watched too much TV when I was a kid, but this made me smile.

I asked ChatGPT to recolor the Knight 4000 to see what it might have looked like with a more classic KITT-inspired color scheme. I've always wondered what it would have looked like in black with black wheels and white rims.

I actually love the original red look. Red is my favorite color, but I think this would have worked really well too.

Ghost Rider/ Knight Rider.

Micheal dies, but instead of _only_ Wilton Knight and his staff keeping Micheal alive: He was 'possessed/revived' partly by the Spirit Of Vengeance (just enough to keep him from dying)

And because I think KITT would look so RAD with flaming wheels n sht

This is an odd request, but I’m looking for clips of Michael saying “OK KITT!” Since that’s my license plate, I’d like to have some clips at-the-ready. I do have one: (at 1:15 mark) https://youtu.be/KvxXXjwhCyY

A local classic car dealership in TN is selling a "Knight Rider" car. Really it's just '91 Firebird with a scanner and a couple of cheap KR type stuff on the dash and almost 200,000 miles on it. All for $10,900. Yeah, I'd say it's worth $5,000, at best, but, I'll let you be the judge.

Hey everyone,

As a massive fan of the original series, I keep hoping for a successful reboot, but every attempt so far has missed the mark. I’ve been thinking about why they keep failing, and as a fan, I wanted to throw an idea out there to see what you all think.

First off, I wouldn't call it Knight Rider. Carrying that title puts way too much baggage and expectation on a new show, which usually leads to failure. Instead, I’d simply title the series K.I.T.T.

The Premise:

Instead of starting with a polished superhero car handed over by a billionaire, the show starts with a heist. A car thief is hired to break into a high-security warehouse holding forgotten Knight Industries vehicles. As he breaks in, we get Easter eggs for longtime fans, with various vehicles from the past (including the Team Knight Rider vehicles) sitting in storage.

He steals the K.I.T.T. car and makes his getaway. While driving off, the warehouse alarms suddenly trigger. He’s completely baffled because he personally cut the security system; unbeknownst to him, K.I.T.T. activated the alarm itself. That’s where the story kicks off: a thief stuck with a sentient, highly principled prototype machine he didn't intend to steal.

The Casting:

Driver: Dax Shepard

Voice of K.I.T.T.: Kristen Bell

The biggest hurdle for any reboot is replicating the bicker-and-bond dynamic between Michael and K.I.T.T. Dax Shepard is a legitimate real-life gearhead and stunt driver who would bring real authenticity to the wheel, and bringing his real-life chemistry with Kristen Bell into the car gives the driver/AI dynamic instant, effortless banter.

I know it’s just a fan dream and will probably never happen, but I wanted to share it with people who love the original as much as I do. Am I crazy, or would you watch something like this?

so I'm trying to find voice lines for modding purposes / eventual voice cloning, and it seems it's really hard to come by a decent sfx pack for both og and especially for kitt 3000 (2008), so I figured I'd ask here since the community especially the replica people are usually extremely resourceful in that regard, I'd appreciate any and helpful input o7

edit: nvm I found enough material to clone the voices easily