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... while parked in a museum in a different US state!


KITT Gets Speeding Ticket In NYC While On Display In Illinois Museum
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Many of us who grew up at a certain time fondly remember KITT, the
black Pontiac Trans Am from "Knight Rider" with a snarky attitude
and a plethora of crime-fighting gadgets. Yet somehow, KITT has
turbo boosted out of the TV screen and received an automated
speeding ticket in a New York City school zone, reportsaABC 10 News.
This would be quite a trick, since the car that received the ticket
has an airtight alibi. It is currently on display at a museum in
Illinois, and has been for several years.

Photo of speeding ticket:
<https://www.jalopnik.com/img/uploads/embed/it-e27tz6-1778687895.jpg>

A speed camera captured a black Pontiac Trans Am with the California
license plate "KNIGHT" on Ocean Parkway, allegedly driving 36 mph in
a 25 zone. We're not disputing the speed, but this is obviously a
fictitious plate in multiple senses of the word. As the saying goes,
"To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer"
(though KITT may disagree). Since the Foundation for Law and
Government is also fictitious, the logical course of action would be
to send the ticket to whoever has this license plate in real life,
regardless of what type of vehicle it's on.

It belongs in a museum
Instead, NYC sent the speeding ticket to Volo Auto Sales in Volo,
Illinois. This company operates not only a collector car dealer, but
also a theme park featuring a Jurassic Park adventure, a Titanic
experience, and a car museum, with a KITT replica in the collection.a
It's also not like the Volo Museum is the only place you can see KITT.
I've sat in another replica at the Celebrity Car Museum in Branson,
Missouri, and seen a screen-used KITT at the Petersen Museum in
Los Angeles. How and why the NYC system chose to send the ticket to
Volo is a mystery. With accuracy like this, it's no wonder that over
40 percent of NYC speed camera tickets get thrown out.

Still, I can imagine a fantasy world where the KITT on display at the
Volo Museum is really the genuine article hidden in plain sight.
Iadon't mean a screen-used KITT. I mean a real life Knight Industries
Two Thousand. Perhaps he left the museum and hit Super Pursuit Mode to
New York on a secret mission, completed it, then sped back to the
museum before anyone noticed.a

Except there's no way that fantasy could be true. The real KITT would
be smart enough to detect and microjam the speed camera to prevent it
from taking the incriminating pictures in the first place. Plus, his
prime directive to preserve human life would have stopped him from
speeding in a school zone in the first place.



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... while parked in a museum in a different US state!

KITT Gets Speeding Ticket In NYC While On Display In Illinois Museum
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Many of us who grew up at a certain time fondly remember KITT, the
black Pontiac Trans Am from "Knight Rider" with a snarky attitude
and a plethora of crime-fighting gadgets. Yet somehow, KITT has
turbo boosted out of the TV screen and received an automated
speeding ticket in a New York City school zone, reportsaABC 10 News.
This would be quite a trick, since the car that received the ticket
has an airtight alibi. It is currently on display at a museum in
Illinois, and has been for several years.

Photo of speeding ticket:
<https://www.jalopnik.com/img/uploads/embed/it-e27tz6-1778687895.jpg>

A speed camera captured a black Pontiac Trans Am with the California
license plate "KNIGHT" on Ocean Parkway, allegedly driving 36 mph in
a 25 zone. We're not disputing the speed, but this is obviously a
fictitious plate in multiple senses of the word. As the saying goes,
"To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer"
(though KITT may disagree). Since the Foundation for Law and
Government is also fictitious, the logical course of action would be
to send the ticket to whoever has this license plate in real life,
regardless of what type of vehicle it's on.

It belongs in a museum
Instead, NYC sent the speeding ticket to Volo Auto Sales in Volo,
Illinois. This company operates not only a collector car dealer, but
also a theme park featuring a Jurassic Park adventure, a Titanic
experience, and a car museum, with a KITT replica in the collection.a
It's also not like the Volo Museum is the only place you can see
KITT. I've sat in another replica at the Celebrity Car Museum in
Branson, Missouri, and seen a screen-used KITT at the Petersen Museum
in Los Angeles. How and why the NYC system chose to send the ticket
to Volo is a mystery. With accuracy like this, it's no wonder that
over 40 percent of NYC speed camera tickets get thrown out.

Still, I can imagine a fantasy world where the KITT on display at the
Volo Museum is really the genuine article hidden in plain sight.
Iadon't mean a screen-used KITT. I mean a real life Knight Industries
Two Thousand. Perhaps he left the museum and hit Super Pursuit Mode
to New York on a secret mission, completed it, then sped back to the
museum before anyone noticed.a

Except there's no way that fantasy could be true. The real KITT would
be smart enough to detect and microjam the speed camera to prevent it
from taking the incriminating pictures in the first place. Plus, his
prime directive to preserve human life would have stopped him from
speeding in a school zone in the first place.

<https://www.jalopnik.com/2172279/kitt-speeding-ticket-nyc-illinois-museum

They say that KITT's 8 track player was frequently faulty and though
William Daniels did the voice in the original series, Val Kilmer saved the
day in 2008.
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