What About Knight Rider’s Semi Driver?
We know all about KITT, the talking, Artificial Intelligence crime fighting Trans Am from TV’s Knight Rider. But what about the Semi, and whoever was behind its wheel? We at Pontiacpedia like to spend a few days every month watching old school Knight Rider episodes, in an attempt to forget all about that new Ford based version currently on NBC.
If we go back into the Knight Rider volt you find a few bits of evidence that the Foundation for Law and Government Semi actually ran on auto pilot. Accord to several KR fan sites, in the fourth season there is mention of an auto pilot program, which would also explain why it never seemed to run into any traffic jams. Too bad the semi couldn’t Turbo Boost.
Other information scouted out refers to several human drivers, since (according to Michael Knight) a human driver must remain behind the wheel at all times, just in case the semi auto pilot malfunctions. One such pilot was fourth season star Peter Parros, who played RC3. Of course the one time you let a character who was introduced to spice up the show drive, the truck gets stolen.
But what about the mysterious man in the trucker cap? Several episodes feature the blurred image of a man in various trucker hats, faithfully driving KITT’s mobile repair shop, risking his (or her?) life in order to get Devon, Michael and Bonnie (or April, if it’s season two) across our nation. Will the tale of this brave, secretive tractor-trailer helmsman ever be told? Or will he go down in the books a person as mysterious as The Stig…
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