

According to Episode 65, "Ten Wheel Trouble" K.I.T.T.'s future capacity is unlimited. For the latter, it is uncertain whether or not active RAM or hard drive space was being discussed. According to Episode 55, "Dead of Knight" K.I.T.T.'s reaction time is one nanosecond and his memory capacity is 1,000 megabits. was truly sentient was never discussed on the show, K.I.T.T. was given a sensitive personality that included an easily bruised ego. to think, learn, communicate and interact with humans.

He enters the situation room, where Shadow is waiting for him. Later On Sky One, Mobius activates a working mind control device and rolls unnoticed past Gil the mechanic. Kyle and Jenny narrowly escape, leaving Shadow trapped behind. As Shadow is about to reveal Mobius' next target, the building starts to explode. Shadow tells Kyle and Jenny everything that Mobius has done to them has been related and Mobius has been trying to get to him. Although they are suspicious, Kyle and Jenny go to meet Shadow while the rest of the team waits outside. (as Shadow) calls for a secret meeting with Team Knight Rider in an abandoned office building. He then began posing as a mysterious man named Shadow trying to help the Team Knight Rider. K.I.T.T.'s main CPU unit had apparently been housed inside Sky One without anyone's knowledge, most likely placed there by Michael or Devon. Devon's answer is that K.I.T.T.'s primary function is the preservation of human life, and Michael's in particular. This is made clear in the pilot episode when Michael asks Devon Miles if K.I.T.T. is programmed primarily to protect Michael and all human life at all costs. was given to his new operator Michael Knight (the new identity of Michael Long). was later deactivated and placed in storage while K.I.T.T. was programmed for self-preservation, but this proved to be dangerous to the Foundation's interests. His predecessor was K.A.R.R., the Knight Automated Roving Robot.
was in fact the second vehicle built by Knight Industries with an artificial intelligence. However, Wilton saw better use for "him" in the Foundation's crime-fighting crusade and eventually the system was installed in the vehicle. K.I.T.T.'s main cybernetic processor was first installed in a mainframe computer used by the United States government in Washington D.C. was conceived and designed by the late Wilton Knight, a brilliant but eccentric billionaire and the founder of the " Foundation for Law and Government", (commonly shortened to "FLAG") and its parent Knight Industries. In the original series' history, K.I.T.T.
