KITT, Michael Knight, and the Dream of One Man Making a Difference
The 1980s loved a good machine. Talking computers. Transforming robots. Time-traveling cars. Super helicopters. Laser-equipped everything. If it had flashing lights, a dashboard full of buttons, and a theme song that made you want to run through a wall, the decade was ready for it. But few machines were cooler than KITT. That black Pontiac Trans Am rolling through the night with the red scanner light sweeping back and forth across the front. The voice. The turbo boost. The bulletproof shell. The impossible technology. The feeling that justice itself had…
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