My fellow millennials may remember ‘Knight Rider’, a gloriously cheesy tv show starring the one and only David Hasselhoff in the eighties and nineties.
The biggest appeal of this show was a sentient car—half vehicular James Bond, half Batmobile—called KITT, who played partner to Hasselhoff’s Michael Knight. I was too young to appreciate the Hoff’s bare-chested glory, but KITT was fascinating to me.
I’m still entranced and horrified by the prospect of self driving cars and AI sentience. I explore this in “Ride of Your Life”. Read it now on Sci Fi Shorts!