New Knight Rider : besides GPS, like watching two hours Ford commercial

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The story begins with Mike Traceur (Justin Bruening), a 23-year-old ex-Army Ranger, -Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff)’s son- has to rescue Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo), a 24-year old Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University with KITT. The men chasing them are revealed to be mercenaries for BlackRiver, a security contractor inspired by Blackwater Worldwide. They are after a system that Graiman designed called Prometheus, which controls the entire U.S. defense network. The actions begin. The New KITT, now has the full name of Knight Industries Three Thousand, not later Knight Industries Two Thousand.

NBC action series New KITT is using Ford Mustang, Shelby GT500KR, while the old one was Pontiac Trans Arm 1982. New KITT designed by Harald Belker, who also the designer of Batmobile. Technologies in this new KITT like auto cruise, auto pursuit, voice interaction, emergency eject, X-Ray, autopilot, voice analyzer, infrared, blood analyzer, rocket boosters and smokescreen is just the same as the old one. Against from its new equipments, fans critic this movie as "watching a two hours Ford commercial".

While the new technologies used in this new KITT are microprocessor V 2.3, radar, sonar, DNA analysis equipment, mass spectrometer, targeted electromagnetic pulse, and military-grade GPS Tracking. GPS Tracking is actually based on similar ground-based radio navigation systems developed in the early 1940s, those has been used during World War II. GPS Tracking can be used as a surveying tool or as an aid to navigation. Alternatively, it is also used to determine location, speed, direction, and time. GPS Tracking functionality has now started to move into mobile phones, and available for broader commercial use.