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It was posted on the board some where about how cheesy it was for Mike tracer to be seen wearing a seat belt. Well to tell you they did the right thing. Back in the early 80's seatbelt laws were different and not all states had a law stating buckle up or get a ticket.It was looser times with that back than.Today most states have the buckle up law and media is much more wide spread(internet) Look at this article it is amazing the media just looks for things to pick apart and exploit.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_ ... iley_cyrus

So basically if Montana can get a beating by the media i expect them to be looking for it in Knight Rider,it's the world we live in. I could see oh my god that Mike tracer guy was doing like 200 mph without a seat belt on lol...Unfortunately we want to see some mystical force hold him in his seat(passive laser restraint)But I guess reality needs to be there also. On another note GM loss a record 39 billion I think a record loss for an automaker. Seems like Gm is having some difficulty.

Boy, it seems every body's harping about seta belt usage in movies and T.V.- but where's KITT's "passive laser restraint system?"

The thing is that the original series introduced the Passive Laser Restraint System because they chose to be responsible, not because they were forced to.

The new series certainly didn't have to implement the seatbelts, either. If any media reports decided to blast the series for not including seatbelts in K.I.T.T., they'd also have to address the fact that in Knight Rider's fictitious world, a Mustang can also smash directly into an SUV at 60 MPH with no damage. To have seatbelts in a car that can morph and absorb imacts at high speeds with no damage does feel a bit primitive. What would be clever, however, is to say that ordinary seatbelts are included because the "normal" mode is supposed to "hide in plain sight," so to speak, and to avoid being pulled over. I guess if the car is going to shift modes, it wouldn't make much sense to have the seatbelts suddenly disappear, though.

I think that, in today's world. You use seat belts. End of discussion. It's against the law not to, and no amount of explanation would make it OK for them not to use them. Different times, different priorities will affect even a fictional universe.

Just thought of it but maybe you can shed some light Shapeshifter. My question is since they wanted to do a lot of the driving sequences for real-The cage on top of the car so that the stunts were really being done with the actors actually in the car doing the stunts and car chases was it mandatory for them to wear the belts because of the law thus effecting the filming of the tv movie.So in essence we see them wearing them because they have to do to Californian law.

Shapeshifter wrote:I think that, in today's world. You use seat belts. End of discussion. It's against the law not to, and no amount of explanation would make it OK for them not to use them. Different times, different priorities will affect even a fictional universe.

Exactly. The passive laser restraint was an awful gimmick to get around complaints, it would be irresponsible to do that these days. And anyway, who cares really?! It never entered my mind. Now when watching it I might have registered they were wearing them, but that registration would've left my brain within seconds!

I don't know how primitive it really is, everything from a nuclear submarine to a F-117 stealth fighter straps you into the seat. It's redundant systems. What if the passive laser restraint system loses power at the wrong moment and you don't have the seat belt as backup?? (That's also why KITT would have a keyboard.)

That's one of the things I complain about in Star Trek, another show I love! They very rarely show them using seat restraints, though in the real Navy, they are used often. Also it is very rare in Star Trek that they show them losing gravity, despite the fact that artificial gravity would undoubtedly use a lot of energy. It might be on what we called on submarines "the vital bus", that is, even on the triple redundancy power system, the artificial gravity still has power. It's still possible to lose power to stuff like that though.

The passive laser restraint system didn't even make sense, it was one of those "physics gone wrong" kind of things and people were strapped into seat belts every once in awhile in Knight Rider. I think there's a scene in the new TV movie that plays up the not wearing a seat belt thing, at least from what I got from one of the previews..

seeker78 wrote:Also it is very rare in Star Trek that they show them losing gravity, despite the fact that artificial gravity would undoubtedly use a lot of energy. It might be on what we called on submarines "the vital bus", that is, even on the triple redundancy power system, the artificial gravity still has power. It's still possible to lose power to stuff like that though.

They tapped it into the same source of power as the red alert system. I swear, if the whole ship ran off of whatever the alarm was using, they'd never lose shields, life supports or weapons at any point...except for 50% out of every minute.

Watch carefully. There may truly be only one episode where the alarm even waivers towards failing...Balance of Power from TOS. (If I recall episode titles correctly.) A super weapon attack knocks the whole bridge into complete darkness, except for one big, bright, red light with a whailing kalaxian. And, even that 'almost' fails. So you know it's a serious hit.