[HN Gopher] Auction: David's Personal KITT Knight Rider Car on Sale
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Auction: David's Personal KITT Knight Rider Car on Sale
Author : baxtr
Score : 84 points
Date : 2021-01-04 10:33 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| tskulbru wrote:
| This is great news for the various AI researches around.
| tinus_hn wrote:
| It's just a car with a nice looking but totally impractical
| dashboard and steering wheel.
|
| There's a YouTube video of someone driving it, it's great
| nostalgic value but that's all really.
| mrunkel wrote:
| I believe the comment you replied to was meant in jest.
| stedaniels wrote:
| Surely there'd be value in attempting to reverse engineer the
| AI?
| Sosh101 wrote:
| The sarcasm model alone would be worth a fortune.
| joosters wrote:
| Let's not get carried away, it doesn't even have a steering
| _wheel_ :)
| mhd wrote:
| Or they could retrofit the existing AI with a state of the art
| one.
|
| "Super Pursuit Mode, KITT!"
|
| "Looking for Proper Fursuit Mods on www.cyberfurries4u.org,
| Michael"
| slowhand09 wrote:
| In other news... Kung Fury 2
| https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/12/david-hasselhoff-kung...
| metalliqaz wrote:
| Kung Fury was amazing. But after years of Vaporwave, /r/outrun,
| and all that, not sure that formula will land in the same way.
| agumonkey wrote:
| Just like many sequels of this kind, it had to happen anyway.
| Just to finish the (new) wave.
| mvanbaak wrote:
| This looks fake to me.
|
| Only some pictures of the inside of the car. Lots of
| spelling/grammer errors in the announcement. Is it USA or UK?
|
| Of course I can be wrong, but I dont buy it.
| brandall10 wrote:
| Did you miss the ones with David Hasselhoff inside of it?
| davegardner wrote:
| David Hasselhoff is promoting it on Twitter so it is legitimate
| https://twitter.com/DavidHasselhoff/status/13454826542973132...
| cgriswald wrote:
| What is legitimate, though? If Hasselhoff picks up a
| converted Trans Am it's his personal KITT car, but doesn't
| otherwise have any other relationship to the show. There's no
| indication this is the car from the show nor is there an
| indication as to how long Hasselhoff had owned the car.
| Arguably he needn't even be the owner; it could be "DAVIDS
| PERSONAL" simply by virtue of the personal delivery by
| Hasselhoff of the price is high enough.
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| He seems to be selling lots of stuff though.
|
| But yeah the description and the photos are pretty sparse
| for something that'll fetch about half a million.
| MegaDeKay wrote:
| "IF HAMMER PRICE EXCEEDS 25% ABOVE RESERVE PRICE, THE HOFF
| WILL PERSONALL DELIVER THE CAR TO THE NEW OWNER."
|
| Capitalized per the original article.
|
| OMG
|
| Capitalized because this would be awesome.
| _nickwhite wrote:
| I was surprised by the seemingly low price of this car: "Estimate
| $175,000 - $300,000"
|
| Jay Leno owns a _replica_ of the Back to the Future DeLorean
| valued at $750,000.
|
| I think anyone would agree the DeLorean is way sexier than the
| Trans Am, but I would argue its place among pop culture is pretty
| high, probably higher than the auction asking price.
| agumonkey wrote:
| I don't think any of them wins in terms of design appeal (that
| Pontiac is really really peculiar and peak in its own genre).
| Now I think that BtTF got 1) an already very excentric car
| (pontiac was mainstream) 2) hollywood seal of fame, TV is
| important but not as glam.
| cgriswald wrote:
| I don't see anything in the post that convinces me this isn't
| replica as well (albeit one ostensibly owned by Hasselhoff).
| metalliqaz wrote:
| from what I remember, it is a replica... sorta. Made for
| promotion rather than for filming. There were several filming
| cars, and most were damaged for various reasons during the
| show. Also, most of those didn't have interiors. Interior
| shots were done in a different cockpit from the exterior
| shots, which were mostly stunt cars.
| tass wrote:
| There's at least one home reproduction of this, and based on a
| review it's horrible to drive: https://youtu.be/V1WbvwQCTvU
|
| I'd love to see a museum pick it up assuming it was used in the
| show's production.
| Digory wrote:
| >assuming it was used in the show's production
|
| There are only two blurry photos of an old Hasselhoff in the
| car. I suspect someone has converted an old car, and agreed to
| pay Hasselhoff well for the privilege of putting his name on
| the title.
|
| It's like the home contractors who reluctantly sell "the
| builder's own dream home" every year.
| mschaef wrote:
| > and based on a review it's horrible to drive:
|
| Not really a surprise. The design of the car is close to 40
| years old, even before you take into account the age of the car
| itself and all the junk piled on for the purpose of looking
| good on screen.
| dharmab wrote:
| Many cars of that era are still delightful to drive:
|
| https://youtu.be/6u8xlg-q5Xc?t=576
|
| https://youtu.be/v5whGoNQK6I?t=172
|
| A lack of safety regulation allowed for cars significantly
| lighter and simpler than what you can buy today. They're
| definitely not _fast_ cars, but they are _enjoyable_ cars.
|
| It's mostly the interior that ruins the KITT cars.
| weinzierl wrote:
| How do actors end up with expensive film props? It doesn't seem
| to be rare that actors and other people involved in movie
| production sell movie props. I always wondered how this works: Do
| they buy it from the production company or is it all courtesies?
| capableweb wrote:
| A lot of people (probably not big time actors though, more like
| taking and no one says no) end up stealing props and smuggling
| them out from production, as otherwise they wouldn't be able to
| get anything from the production.
|
| At least from the few people I've visited who had props at
| home, 90% of the props were stolen by them on the last day of
| shootings.
| bluedevil2k wrote:
| Not too many years ago all the props of movies and TV shows
| were simply destroyed when the TV show or movie ended. There
| was no "collector market". Since the items were worthless to
| the studios when filming was complete, actors were allowed to
| take what they wanted. This is why you rarely see items from
| the early days of movies (1920-1950) for sale, they were rarely
| saved. The movie posters from the movies in those days were
| some of the only items preserved, and those can command premium
| prices, even into the millions for a poster like "Metropolis".
| It also makes you appreciate the fact that the ruby slippers
| from "Wizard of Oz" were saved. (Source - the Hollywood ride in
| Disney Studios)
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| Yeah lots of stuff is just left to rot outside. Like that
| Enterprise Bridge (though it wasn't the one from the show but
| from the Vegas Experience)
| jasonv wrote:
| If they end up as producers on the show, they can often just
| get it granted to them, or included in the promotion
| obligations that are part of their contracts.
| thrav wrote:
| After a season or 2 -- if it's a hit -- I bet it becomes pretty
| easy to negotiate ownership of items into your contract, since
| they can't do the show without you anymore and it's a
| relatively small price to pay.
|
| See Sex and the City wardrobe.
| rootbear wrote:
| I'm wondering how KITT feels about this. Did he and the Hoff have
| a spat, so Hoff is dumping him? So many questions...
| baxtr wrote:
| If you won the auction you could ask KITT exactly that...
| fiftyacorn wrote:
| Are they certain it's KITT? There was a baddie version of KITT
| for a while called KATT
| metalliqaz wrote:
| KARR
|
| You get 10 demerits on your nerd card.
|
| Also KARR was white, not black.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Originally black: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KPs5O5HXODE
|
| A virtual twin of KITT (same prop set I believe).
|
| Later two-tone: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYs_DkFIqx8
| coleca wrote:
| I thought it was KARR
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARR_(Knight_Rider)?
| GNOMES wrote:
| I see they are selling other Hoff items, but still question why
| not sell the car on a more automotive focused site like Bring a
| Trailer
| 5555624 wrote:
| Probably because as a car, it's not worth as much. I think this
| is the sort of thing that would appeal to a memorabilia
| collector, rather than a car collector. If I was selling the
| Batmobile, from either the movies or the TV series, I would not
| think of selling it a car auction.
| mrunkel wrote:
| I don't understand this site.
|
| Are we pre-bidding for the car? The actual live auction will take
| place on the 23rd of January, so what would be the purpose of
| bidding now except to drive up the price ahead of time?
|
| > FULLY FUNCTIONAL K.I.T.T. CAR WITH FULL CONVE3RSION CAR LOCATED
| IN U.K. LOT WINNER RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERY EXPENSE, IF HAMMER
| PRICE EXCEEDS 25% ABOVE RESERVE PRICE, THE HOFF WILL PERSONALL
| DELIVER THE CAR TO THE NEW OWNER.
|
| How unprofessional is it to have so many typos and punctuation
| mistakes in one short blurb?
|
| The auction says it ships from Canoga Park, CA, the description
| says it's located in U.K.
|
| What is a buyer's premium?
| netsharc wrote:
| > How unprofessional is it to have so many typos and
| punctuation mistakes in one short blurb?
|
| The blurry picture of Hasselhoff about to step out of the car
| and not ready for a pic is the cherry on top...
| dcminter wrote:
| The buyer's premium is a fee (usually a fixed percentage on top
| of the auction price) paid by the buyer.
| dkdk8283 wrote:
| The buyers premium in this case is 21%.
| bluedevil2k wrote:
| The buyer's premium on this is crazy high - typically
| they're 6% - 10%.
| technothrasher wrote:
| > The auction says it ships from Canoga Park, CA, the
| description says it's located in U.K.
|
| Pictures are from a shop in London. I imagine contacting them
| might shed some light on it for an interested party.
| https://yiannimize.com/
|
| > What is a buyer's premium?
|
| Buyer additionally pays a percentage of their winning bid to
| the auction house. This is very common in auctions.
| 88 wrote:
| Yiannimize is the business of a well known British Youtuber.
| The business is mostly known for car wrapping.
|
| See below a video Yianni made with this car back in 2016:
|
| https://youtu.be/FFgJT9H9z0o
|
| Edit: It looks like this may be the current/previous owner:
|
| https://www.instagram.com/knightriderlondon/?hl=en
| qrbLPHiKpiux wrote:
| Did you see his cheeseburger video?
| tmpxgdqrcKFuG wrote:
| > FULLY FUNCTIONAL
|
| With Turbo Boost and the molecular bonded shell that repels
| bullets and explosions?
| agumonkey wrote:
| You might have to buy Devon's truck and hire Bonnie for a
| while.
| amelius wrote:
| I suspect this will be bought by Waymo or another autonomous
| driving company, for PR.
| motohagiography wrote:
| That's genius. It's more than PR, it's an organic user
| experience with mainstream familiarity for hundreds of millions
| of people. If I were at a large car company, this is easily
| worth the price of 2-3 engineers.
|
| As a product manager, I would use the popular understanding of
| KITT as a reference early-adopter customer experience, not to
| replicate, but as a median.
|
| KITT's dashboard instrumentation is amazing (and oddly seems to
| have a synth ASD envelope if you look closely), which seems
| hilarious, but the point is to be a sophisticated command
| console for powerful operations, which is what it looks like.
| Totally different from the disconnected infotainment web pages
| of today.
|
| The entire car UX today is about permission, approval, safety,
| and comfort, like a kind of suburban living room in a display
| case. Whereas what the KITT (and motorcycle) UX is about is
| measurement, instrumentation, and consequence. A KITT style UX
| may be the secret to getting self-driving car traction because
| almost nobody will believe autonomous land vehicles are safe,
| but they will believe they are powerful.
|
| I should do a self-driving car startup.
| intrepidhero wrote:
| I love the "powerful" retro sci-fi look but let's be honest
| about KITT, this UX is (unsurprisingly) terrible. All those
| glowy bar-graphs that line up perfectly are hard to
| differentiate and flat out inappropriate for some
| measurements. There is way more information presented than
| needed, and it's not grouped into logical clusters at all. It
| looks super cool but it's a safety nightmare.
|
| The dashboard morphed a little during the show's run. KITT
| must have got an upgrade because the speedometer max went
| from 200 to 500 MPH. It's got a built in printer! I'm dying
| to know what "Propagation Delay HRS" is supposed to mean. And
| you know it's 80s because: no blue LEDs.
|
| https://knight-rider.fandom.com/wiki/K.I.T.T._(2000)
| https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Kitt-
| dash-S1-2-...
| https://www.deviantart.com/davemetlesits/art/Knight-Rider-
| Ki...
| motohagiography wrote:
| There with you on the nightmare aspect, but having spent
| time in tech, powerful looking but meaningless is a big
| selling point. It's representative and preformative. It's
| like when an enterprise customer says, "I know your product
| does this thing, but I need it to show everyone else it's
| doing it, and how sophisticated it is so they come to me to
| get it done!"
|
| A product doesn't need to solve a problem (looking at you,
| every security product ever), it needs to let the customer
| demonstrate value to their own coalition. The point of KITT
| was it made the Hoff look cool without the cost and risk of
| a sidekick co-star. I wouldn't replicate the dash, but I
| would certainly use it as a reference example for something
| that did that job.
|
| Great links, such a strange thing to be discussing a 40yr
| old fictional talking car.
| loudouncodes wrote:
| Fully functional?
|
| I have expectations...
| fnord77 wrote:
| surprised Tesla hasn't included a whimsical "KITT mode" in their
| cars' software.
|
| Maybe copyright issues.
| LoSboccacc wrote:
| we just have to wait til 2087
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