Rewatching Knight Rider 40 Years Later
It might have been the advent of Peacock that made me dive back into Knight Rider, which was my one must watch show as a kid. I just loved the possibility of tech advancing so far that cars could be so cool. Now 40 years later, as a working technologist who has owned a Tesla, I call out some obvious tech gaps in the show ...
- Where did the Artificial Intelligence compute run? The cloud wasn't a thing back in 1982, so did it run on the car? If so, what kind of storage did that thing have? If not ...
- Assuming the car depended on external compute, like a data center, what kind of data network did it use? Did they invent something that was as fast and widespread as our 5G networks?
- Don't even get me started with the accuracy of "self driving". The Tesla tech was downright scary to use, yet many people use it happily to get places (and even to aid them getting home after drinking).
Anyways, observed these after 3-4 episodes, and I plan to come back with more observations after watching more.