<![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @capedcrusader: I was just about to post that! Great minds think alike.

This will give away my age, but I used to have a Speed Buggy lunchbox when I was in 1st grade.

hardcle

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Science-Fiction, people....

How did you forget the Gay Deceiver, from Robert Heinlein's "The Number fo the Beast"? Smartest car in the galaxy.

Read a book!

CapedCrusader

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Is there some reason that the "Cars" style VW pic is a mirror image?

steeleye

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Spekkio

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Y'know, Bumblebee isn't the only awesome transforming car.

Spekkio

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> And don't forget my favorite, Carnivor! A werewolf who travels the back roads of America in talking car, fighting crime!

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sgodun

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> "Chight Rief, er, right Chief"

Anybody remember Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch?

SundaySunday

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> What about the motorcycles from that Galactica spinoff - something like Galactica 1980? Really abominable show.

Speaking of abominable, what about the opening scene on one of the NextGen movies where they're driving a sandrail. Boy, did that suck.

In the awesome department, you can't beat the Batmobile. The original from the 60s, though the one from Batman Begins was also pretty cool. "Reactors to power, turbines to speed", and camp cranked to maximum, baby!

Boraxo

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> the car from Knight Rider 2010 was pretty smart. For a Mustang.

Justin K. Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Hell, MY car is smarter than KITT because it knows better than to hang out with David Hasselhoff.

JennaW

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @Yurikaze: Ah Turbo Teen. Those were the days!

Szin

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Pshaw. You mention HB's Speed Buggy, but not the Kroft's Wonderbug? There is no justice.

webmaven

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @Gyrus: Um.

The new Bumblebee was a Camaro, man. Not--I repeat--not a Mustang.

You would do well to avoid confusing these two again, if you value your manhood. Now, off to Lenscrafters with you and get that prescription checked out.

jolaszek

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @zerofritz: I was thinking of Pole Position, too, so no worries, yo. What the fuck was up with the little monkey things, though?

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @zerofritz:

Oh thankt god. I still vaugley remeber the theme music.

So glad I'm not the only one.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @zerofritz: I was totally expecting to see them on this list too :(

What about turbo teen? I don't know the back story (if there even is one) but couldn't he be viewed as some sort of breakthrough in biomechanical engineering?

Retrohex

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Asimov published "Sally" in 1953, a short story about sentient cars. First?

Lars

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> The motorcycle from Warrior of the Lost World? Anyone?

Very Bad Mothers
Very Bad Mothers
Very Bad Mothers

Marcus

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Who can forget Turbo Teen?
The Hanna-Barbara cartoon about a teenage guy who turned into an early 80's Pontiac Firebird whenever he ate spicy food or got hot?
I kid you not.
No wonder his girlfriend would always hang out with his best friend.
Think about it... your making out on the couch, and suddenly you're crushed by post-malaise Trans Am.

Yurikaze

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Gay Deceiver from Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast.

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @TheTooth: It's an awesome thing... but it's outside our jurisdiction. Gawker's demonic possession blog would kick our ass if we stepped on their toes. And they have special satanic powers on their side!

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: You say that like it's a bad thing...

TheTooth

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> what about Trucks? the movie wasn't that SCIFI but at least the town was named Luna... [www.fearscene.com]

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Wheels and Roadie from the Pole Position cartoon?

/crickets chirping

@braak: it was Ghost Buggy, and I hate hate *hate* myself for knowing that without googling.

zerofritz

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: Also, the car in Car.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> I thought Maximum Overdrive suggested that...a comet? Or a Russian satellite? I forget which. Anyway, there was some kind of sci-fi explanation for Coke machines firing cans like grenades and evil goblin semi-trucks. That movie is very high on my "guilty pleasure" list.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @beercheck: Maximum Overdrive! Little did Yeardley know in 1986 know what was in store for her...

What about Nick Fury's flying car. Sure it wasn't sentient, but Hella fast! And hey...there's your Night Rider connection right there. Didn't the Hoff play Nick in a made for TV movie a few years ago.

Ignatzybanjo

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: I guess. But does that disqualify it from having a mind of its own? How about the Goblin truck and his friends in Maximum Overdrive? Pure evil, but diabolical and definitely sentient. Maybe all those are too far on the fantasy side vs. sci-fi?

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> What was the name of that car that was in the old Ghostbusters cartoon? Not the real Ghostbusters, one, the other one.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> @beercheck: Wasn't Christine demonically possessed?

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Herbie?

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> Ahem. Christine.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> What's wrong with Bunblebee? Even the old school VW bug version could kick Kitt's ass. The new version was a Mustang who lost his legs in a fire fight with Megatron and survived! Kitt can, what, drive up a moving ramp into the back of a tractor trailer? Whatever.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> What about my Mother the Car? I think that was the first sentient one.

B

]]> <![CDATA[Scifi Cars That Are Smarter Than KITT]]> While it was a motorcycle, who can forget Heat Vision from Heat Vision and Jack?:
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