Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

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Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by LauraLondon » Wed May 14, 2008 4:53 am

My boyfriend and I are wondering this and hope someone can help us out: does anyone know how KITT's mobile garage-truck gets about the place? Is it like a giant version of KITT which drives itself, or is there some shadowy driver figure whom nobody talks to very much??

(We are only mid-way through the first season at the moment, so apologies if this is resolved in some episode we haven't got to yet!)

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Crumbling Down » Wed May 14, 2008 8:28 am

I think that there is a person that drives the truck they just are never seen or mentioned
Booonnnnnzzzzaaaaaiii!!!!!!!! As michael turbo boosts to score the extra point. His face is so funny when he yells this and when he hits turbo boost his eyes get huge and he flies back into the seat

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Lost Knight » Wed May 14, 2008 11:45 am

It's typically a random Foundation employee throughout seasons 1-3 and most of the fourth season. R.C.3 occasionally drives it in the fourth season. The semi also is indeed capable of driving itself, however it's a strict Foundation rule that there must be a driver behind the wheel at all times.
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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by LauraLondon » Wed May 14, 2008 11:57 am

Thanks for clearing that up! Wow, that is some serious encyclopaedic knowledge you've got going on there!!

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Crumbling Down » Wed May 14, 2008 3:03 pm

Did they ever mention any of that in the episodes LostKnight?
Booonnnnnzzzzaaaaaiii!!!!!!!! As michael turbo boosts to score the extra point. His face is so funny when he yells this and when he hits turbo boost his eyes get huge and he flies back into the seat

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by knightofthephoenix » Wed May 14, 2008 11:14 pm

The semi can drive itself?

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Stargazer » Wed May 14, 2008 11:33 pm

knightofthephoenix wrote:The semi can drive itself?
Yes, it can. I remember an episode where RC is in the cab of the truck watch something on TV ( I think a sports game ) with his hands behind his head. You can also see the steering wheel moving back and forth.

So what kind of auto pilot did the semi have? I don't have a clue as it was never talked about on the show.

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by snafu » Fri May 16, 2008 12:12 am

I saw a guy on "Ice Road Truckers" get up and mess with a cooler in the sleeper cab of his semi while it was driving on the highway, but I don't think that was auto pilot... just a long, straight road and a very trusting driver.
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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Stargazer » Fri May 16, 2008 5:38 am

SD_Chick wrote:I saw a guy on "Ice Road Truckers" get up and mess with a cooler in the sleeper cab of his semi while it was driving on the highway, but I don't think that was auto pilot... just a long, straight road and a very trusting driver.
Well, we are mainly talking about the F.L.A.G. semi.

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Victor Kros » Sat May 17, 2008 8:37 am

The only episode I can recall where it shows the F.L.A.G. Semi driving itself is in The Wrong Crowd which is the episode (season four) Stargazer was referring to with RC3 watching the game and communicating with Michael. Other then that I believe you usually saw some sort of unidentified figure driving it.

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by Joe Huth » Sat May 17, 2008 1:25 pm

In "Burial Ground", Devon tells RC to get back to the wheel of the semi as Devon is uncomfortable with the semi rolling down the highway driverless. So, I think it's safe to say that in Season 4, RC was the semi's main driver.

I remember reading in one of the Knight Rider novels that Bonnie was supposed to be the semi's driver...but of course, we never saw that on screen.

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by KnightLady » Mon May 19, 2008 7:19 pm

I barely saw the episode of "Burial Ground" this weekend. It does seem like the truck would have some sort of auto pilot on it considering that RC3 was helping to work on KITT's suspension system. He really couldn't be in two places at once. Driving the truck and working on KITT. And after Devon made that comment he hightailed it back to the front of the truck. I think it was assumed that Bonnie must've driven that truck in the earlier first season of KR because, if I remember right they at first had the truck parked on the side on the road.

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Re: Who drives the Knight Rider truck??

Post by cloudkitt » Wed May 21, 2008 12:41 am

Yeah it's not like FLAG doesn't know HOW to make an auto-pilot. It's probably just the same feature KITT has without the AI.
Michael: "KITT! Where are ya?!"
K.I.T.T.: "I'm in your parking space, Michael, where else would I be?"

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