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KITT (known also as Knight Industries Two Thousand/Knight Industries Three Thousand) is the short name of a fictional character on the adventure TV series Knight Rider
Knight Rider

Knight Rider is an United States television series that originally ran from September 26, 1982, to August 8, 1986. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern-day knight fighting crime....
. KITT is an artificial intelligence electronic computer installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robot in the form of a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
Pontiac Firebird

The Pontiac Firebird was built by the Pontiac division of General Motors between 1967 and 2002.The Firebird was introduced the same year as its platform-sharing cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro....
.

KITT was redesigned in the two-hour pilot movie
Knight Rider (2008 film)

Knight Rider is a television movie which was created to serve as a Television pilot#Backdoor pilots for the new Knight Rider television series, a revival of the Knight Rider which aired during the 1980s....
 with a new name, Knight Industries Three Thousand, and revamped even more when the new series
Knight Rider (2008 TV series)

Knight Rider is a television series that follows the 1982 Knight Rider and the 2008 Knight Rider . The series stars Justin Bruening as Mike Traceur, the estranged son of Michael Knight ....
 aired.






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KITT (known also as Knight Industries Two Thousand/Knight Industries Three Thousand) is the short name of a fictional character on the adventure TV series Knight Rider
Knight Rider

Knight Rider is an United States television series that originally ran from September 26, 1982, to August 8, 1986. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern-day knight fighting crime....
. KITT is an artificial intelligence electronic computer installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robot in the form of a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
Pontiac Firebird

The Pontiac Firebird was built by the Pontiac division of General Motors between 1967 and 2002.The Firebird was introduced the same year as its platform-sharing cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro....
.

KITT was redesigned in the two-hour pilot movie
Knight Rider (2008 film)

Knight Rider is a television movie which was created to serve as a Television pilot#Backdoor pilots for the new Knight Rider television series, a revival of the Knight Rider which aired during the 1980s....
 with a new name, Knight Industries Three Thousand, and revamped even more when the new series
Knight Rider (2008 TV series)

Knight Rider is a television series that follows the 1982 Knight Rider and the 2008 Knight Rider . The series stars Justin Bruening as Mike Traceur, the estranged son of Michael Knight ....
 aired. KITT is now a 2008 Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang
Shelby Mustang

The Shelby Mustang is a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang, built by Ford from 1968 through 1970. The 1965, 1966 and 1967 Shelbys were a series of Ford Mustangs which were specially modified by Carroll Shelby's company and sold under the name Shelby GT....
, equipped with new weapons, a completely redesigned attack mode, and more transformation abilities.

History

In the television show's history, KITT was said to have been designed by the late Wilton Knight, a brilliant but eccentric billionaire and founder of the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG), and its parent Knight Industries.

KITT's main cybernetic processor was first installed in a mainframe computer
Mainframe computer

Mainframes are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, Enterprise Resource Planning, and financial transaction processing....
 used by the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 government in Washington D.C.. However, Wilton saw better use for "him" in the Foundation's crime-fighting crusade and eventually the system was installed in the vehicle. KITT was in fact the second vehicle built by Knight Industries with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
. His predecessor was KARR
KARR (Knight Rider)

KARR is the name of a fictional, automated, prototype vehicle featured as a major antagonist in two episodes of the television series Knight Rider and was part of a multi-episode story arc in the Knight Rider ....
, the Knight Automated Roving Robot. KARR was programmed for self-preservation, but this proved to be dangerous to the Foundation's humanitarian interests. KARR was later deactivated and placed in storage while KITT was given to his new operator, Michael Knight (the new identity of Michael Long). KARR was later reactivated accidentally by thieves in the original episode "Trust Doesn't Rust"
KARR (Knight Rider)

KARR is the name of a fictional, automated, prototype vehicle featured as a major antagonist in two episodes of the television series Knight Rider and was part of a multi-episode story arc in the Knight Rider ....
, was thought destroyed, then reappeared in the episode "K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R."
KARR (Knight Rider)

KARR is the name of a fictional, automated, prototype vehicle featured as a major antagonist in two episodes of the television series Knight Rider and was part of a multi-episode story arc in the Knight Rider ....
 and was destroyed by Michael and KITT.

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