KITT 3000

The Knight 3000 is an evolution of Dr. Charles Graiman's programing and software that he began developing back in the late 1970's/early 1980's for Wilton Knight and Knight Industries. Over the decades, Graiman advanced and refined the technology. The greatest leap in the advancement of the technology that would become K.I.T.T. came around the turn of the 21st century when the NSA had Graiman develop K.A.R.R. (Knight Auto-Cybernetic Roving Robotic-Exoskeleton), based on the original Artificial Intelligence he designed for Knight Industries and their first Super-Car. After the K.A.R.R. Program failed, the NSA told Graiman to try and build a new A.I. Unit with the hope that it would correct the problems with K.A.R.R.

Graiman began to build a new A.I., with only the FBI's knowledge. It is assumed he incorporated elements of another one his projects that he also developed for the government, Project Prometheus. This accounts for the A.I.'s ability to uplink itself with satellites and the Military Defense Network, as well as the ability to control other objects. Graiman added his and his daughter's, Sarah, nano-technology to replace his previous creations', the Knight 2000 and the first incarnation of K.A.R.R., nearly indestructible Molecularly Bonded Shell. Graiman decided to build the new A.I. and technology into a Ford vehicle, specifically the 2008 Shelby Mustang GT500 KR. Graiman christened the car the Knight Industries Three Thousand, after his previous success, the Knight 2000.

Graiman built in all the features that he could conceive of that would allow this car to be the ultimate super-car; a super-car that clung to the basic programming that he wrote into the previous K.I.T.T. and had lacked writing into K.A.R.R. (which lead to it's downfall): The Preservation of Human Life. This directive would be K.I.T.T.'s governing doctrine, and would lead to many safely completed missions and a better world. Some of the advancements and refinements that Graiman made for this iteration of a Knight Industries' Super-Car were an energy efficient, solar powered system, reduced dashboard clutter with a centralized touch screen, and a regenerative nano-skin that allowed K.I.T.T. to heal itself, and change its form whenever it was necessary. One of these forms was called Attack Mode. It beefed up K.I.T.T., allowing the car to achieve higher speeds and gave the car more defensive and offensive abilities. This mode was a more integrated version of the the 2000's later added Super Pursuit Mode.

Graiman was against returning K.I.T.T. and the refinements made in its programming to the NSA to finish the K.A.R.R. Program and correct the flaw's in K.A.R.R.'s, seemingly continuous, defective A.I. Graiman left many of the system's in K.I.T.T. unchecked and untested so as to not mark the project as complete, therefore not allowing the NSA to take K.I.T.T. But K.I.T.T. was operational and ready to perform basic duties when called upon for them. But until that time, K.I.T.T. sat in Graiman's lab, next to parts left over from the development of its previous counterparts.