Meet KAITT, the FIRST Integrated AI Self-Driving Car that Talks Back!
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For decades we’ve dreamed of a real life KITT from Knight Rider; a fully conversational in-car copilot, & we’ve been developing an app that makes the dream REAL! Let’s take it for a spin in the latest version of Tesla’s full-self driving v12 software 🧑🏭 Thanks to PCBWay.com for great PCBs from $5! 📺 7-day free trial: Ad-free early access to our videos + double the content 👉 / perifractic 🚀 Your support helps us keep the channel & nostalgia alive 📼
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MENU:
0:00 Teaser
0:27 Intro / Why it's real
3:54 How it’s integrated with the car
6:22 Trans Am for Tesla haters
6:52 Win early app access & KITTesla
7:32 How the app works
9:01 How we did the voice
11:23 FSD v12 drives like a human
12:08 He remembers context
12:42 Can we make him break character?
14:15 Does he believe he's now in a Tesla?
14:47 Return to FLAG Test Track!
15:54 Turbo Boobs!
17:42 Introducing students to Knight Rider
18:21 Return to FLAG!
18:53 Are your systems from PCBWay?
19:35 Questions for KAITT (inc. German/French)
20:38 Ski Mode!
21:08 Return to FLAG Workshop!
22:40 Integrations: Pop the hood!
23:58 Questions for KAITT from Patreon
26:55 Can he do a U-turn? (Disaster!?)
28:31 Conclusion & Supporter Cred
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Thanks for watching! *Win KITTesla including early app access:* bit.ly/winkittesla - Good luck and “suburb biscuit” to you all! 😆
Great stuff! However on the link I can only see the raffle entry and not the app early access link could you help?
I’m far too poor to keep up with the costs of my own vehicle. But I would enjoy the occasional ride. Congratulations to whoever wins! 🎉
@@JayCreates To clarify, the car comes with app access :)
I've entered the raffle but even if I don't win (good luck to everyone who enters), I'll definitely be looking to install the Android version of the app in my own car (when it becomes available). Either way, awesome work 👍
I ADORE the dedication to this
The fact that only now there's the capability of self-driving cars integrated with AI modules makes me realize how futuristic and visionary Knight Rider really was 40 years ago. Amazing!
Kind of obvious if one thinks about it. It's just the technology wasn't there.
Well, art's limit is only someone's imagination. By that standard star trek would be the most visionary of all since we still don't have most of the technology portrayed there.
The accent drifting between English, American and Australian was quite likable.
I should be editing but... this is so cool.
As a HUGE fan of Knight Rider, I really LOVE what you did with the car in this video ! Happy to be witnessing this happening in real life. From fiction to reality ! And now going to try my luck at winning that car, because it's a MUST have ! 😍
K.A.I.T.T‘s persona is on point!
as a german i can say it in michaels words. i brought down the berlin wall imao because i sang "i been looking for freedom" love your creation.you did quite some job.congrat .
That made my inner child smile the whole time. At long last, 40-ish years later, the fiction of KR is being fully realized. Makes me wonder if in 5 years (3... 1???) time, will fully interactive chat avatars become a standard option for any modernized car. Because it sure feels like a way to whittle away those long miles during that next car based vacation trip. And... got to smirk at the Tesla auto pilot missing that entire set of stairs. Feels like the time when KITT questioned what a trolly car in San Fran was.
Amazing. You Sir, keep me smiling like a child with all your KITTesla adventures.
I like the way this channel has evolved. It will be interesting to see AI writing software for 8 or 16 Bit computers. I always find your work entertaining and come away with learning something new :)
man this guy is a genius. he needs more followers.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes I think he meant the car ;P
This guy has to be my soul brother. I have had two full KITT Replicas 1/2 season and a 3/4 season. Now I have a white model 3 Tesla and plan on winning this one. Thanks for your channel and what you're doing buddy!
We are so close to Knight Rider.
Leaping over traffic will be so much fun.
This is the age of the real KITT. With AI and autonomous driving! Well done on the build!
Do your research, invest in Tesla!
Best personality of any KITT re-creation to date! Voice actually sounds like Michael + Devon to my ears
KAITT is so awesome. Can't wait to it be available for android.
This is such an underrated channel
12:02 "I would go now, if I was a human being..." Wait, what?!? :) I always wondered about you!
Hey Perifractic, I couldn’t help but to comment this time, my 1st in a video of Kittesla and this channel. I've been dropping by to watch your progress, turning one my childhood dreams come true. Outstanding, very thorough work with love and dedication to the Knight Rider cult, from your team. I was impressed with the latest development of the AI voice model, such nice responses, omg! I'm looking forward to see your KITT replica Pontiac with as much of these mods as possible, please DO it! It would be awesome and a delight to all Knight Rider fans! I am now subscribing. Drive safe! 😎
A pity the camera glitched out during the turbo boost, there...
So unfortunate. I would've shown the back angle but the cameras all fell over.
"Kitt has a wonderful sense of humor, don't you think?" I love this So SO much. Every time I watch one of your Knight Rider Vids it moves me to tears. I have been following you for some time now. I am overwhelmed with emotions. I don't have the words to describe just how unbelievably cool this is. The coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. Please tell Kitt: "You have ALL my love and support, because NOTHING influenced my childhood and shaped the man I am like Knight Rider. Sincerely, Space Ninja" You are literally LIVING my lifelong dream, and I am SO happy for you. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to more.
I will absolutely pass that along! I was telling him just today how good the reaction has been. He said to say hi to his fans, so, HI!
@@RetroRecipes Just purchased raffle tickets! I hope you reach your GOAL and are able to make someone's dreams come true. I would love to feel like I helped make that happen, in some small way. If at all possible, it would be great to see a video of you delivering KITTesla to the winner, and their reaction.
@@IAMtheSpaceNinja Yep, if it reaches the goal I do plan a delivery video of some kind!
That would be incredible to swap the entire Tesla hardware with the actual kitt car to have the absolute complete experience 😂
Yeah 100%
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but it begs for a transplant of the FSD computer
@@cbuchner1 That would be totally jaw dropping and the ultimate thing, though, maybe too overwhelming of a task and pratically not viable but.. who knows
Ok Kitt is now doing dad jokes god help us all 😂. Amazing video as always and i can not wait for you to get the other car self driving now that would be something. Looking forward to seeing what joy you bring us all next so until then have a great weekend and you all take care.
I wonder who he learned them from 😅
You need donkey kong 2600 blips along with the centipede sfx.
One man can make a difference... Justin, who has made an awesome app! The response is even quicker & better than Humane AI Pin !!! 🤣 Love that you contacted William Daniels too!
Perifractic, as a fellow Brit, about the same age, with a similar cultural upbringing, I watch your videos and wonder… does this guy ever just sit there after filming a video like this and think ‘how the hell did I get here?’ Just like you, to be driving this car, in these locations would have been beyond a dream when I was a kid. Good job. I’m jealous, but only in the most positive way. Thank you for living, and making a reality, my childhood dreams.
Haha I do! I sometimes just take a breath and laugh to myself. The answer, rather boringly, is a lot of hard work and scary decisions. But I'd do it all again of course!
PCBWAAAAAY! And as we all know PCB stands for Peri's Car Builds. Doesn't it?
Great video, Perifractic! Your multiple talents amaze me everytime. Looking forward how you will transform the old Pontiac into a real K.I.T.T. And "Ich spreche Deutsch", too :) Greetings from good old Europe :)
Long time lurker..To me you are the new bob ross…and I love your family unit presentation…you make my weekends that more enjoyable……thank you.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
The pinnacle moment.... wow.. sends shivers down my spine. LOVE IT. :)
BRO, I'VE SEEN YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE!?
@@Komin-Kun It's possible. :)
Peri, my mother in law's surname is "Day", because her grandfather was an orphan who was delivered to the orphanage during the during daylight hours. Babies delivered at night are "Nights" or "Knights", etc. Sometimes you get a "Winter" if the baby arrives on a cold day.
This is just mind blowing. Great work. I love it
Your passion to all that is Knight Rider is just so mesmerizing to watch!
This is awesome! Finally K.I.T.T. is in your tesla! I can't wait for the next video when you put the K.I.T.T. AI into your 1982 trans-am!
Thank You Everybody for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth.... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤ 🕊
This is wild. I've been sitting on a similar idea of using an LLM as a "car companion" for a while. You wouldn't have to have it be KITT, you could come up with your own persona and stuff of course. So since you've beat me on building such a thing, I'll just leave this here and see if you pick it up. What if you use an Arduino CANBUS interface, which you can read everything being sent on the bus and use an LLM to decode the signals, that can pair with your phone via bluetooth and you could have KAITT interface with the car via listening and maybe even sending info back onto the CANBUS without having to go out to the cloud via API to get things like closing the door and such to work. ;) Might be worth looking into, at least for the Teslas. Mapping everything for other makes and models of cars might be out of scope. But whatever. Just gonna leave that here... :)
Perifractic, thanks for this upload. Just seen this on the homepage and had to watch! Just the pick me up I needed! 😁🤣🤭
I want a KAITT app! ❤ The existing KITT app never properly worked 😢
Thank you KITT and Perifract an awesome trip down memory lane. Cheers
You could technically make the TransAm drive itself. There is a EV conversion company in the UK that also does work with CommaAI. I cant remember the name right now but i watched a video where they put full self driving into an old Mazda MX5 and it worked great.
Correct! That's the plan after I raffle KITTesla off. It will take some money to do right, including an EV conversion :)
@@RetroRecipes Electric Classic Cars in wales do amazing work but that means getting it over here. I think they charge around £15-16k for a conversion.
This is great, something ive always wanted for a vehicle. Too bad about William Daniels voice but yours is pretty close. Amazing Work
Unfortunately, I can't take part in the competition. The German TÜV would take the car completely apart. I would then have to install KITT in a portable TV set and carry it around with me 😅
Awesome job, Peri! This is too cool. I wonder if an Android version could run on non-phone hardware, so that the display could be better integrated into the dash on your trans-am? Improving on the packaging basically. Thanks for bringing the twelve year old me’s dream to life.
Nice Pontiac integration coming soon!...
@@RetroRecipes Too cool, thanks for the reply.
Someone is really going to love that car. WOW
Technically, you should be able to save all the sounds that William made from the Knight Rider, and adjust the clips that have interference. And then you let an AI read all the audio files into a database and let it, - via the recordings, generate the correct voice for the questions you ask it. For example. Elvis, Mercury, Cash, etc. has some decent AI generated songs already. In 10-20 years, AI-songs will be incredibly good. The fact that William doesn't want to get his voice into an AI is very sad. But as long as interest in Knight Rider continues, I can guarantee that his voice will be used in a really good AI sooner or later - regardless of his will. Even the personality of KITT will very likely be the same as the original within 20 years if you so wish. And then it will react and respond much faster than today. We're in for a treat! Thank you for the video.
Just FREAKING LEGEND! 🙌🏽 Amazing. Is the app already on the App Store for sale? I would buy it in heartbeat! Your videos are the best.
Waitlist link in description for when we release it 👍🕹
I am so proud of your progress! WOW! I am really happy for you and lady fratic! You are truly a good heart that has a true mission! What a great job programming!
Thanks so much! And full credit to Justin Okun as well who did the legwork on the programming 🙌
Top shelf,Awesome and Kittastic.. 😁 without a doubt your videos and coolness are off the charts. Appreciate all the time and hard work that goes into your videos. You rock my friend 😎
No-one likes a smart-ass automobile. I really liked your use of a scene from Knight Rider 2000 whilst KAITT was answering . I also liked... ... the rest of the video. Cheerio.
This has to be the best AI MKBHD hasn't reviewed!!
Hahaha
The voice is fantastic😮 sounds like a full update of William Daniels voice👍 good job dude.
Obviously the voice is off, but the personality and conversation is spot on for Kitt. Very cool. Im definitely going to enter the raffle. 👍
Thank you so much it brings back so many memories. Can’t wait for the app to be up and ready. And I’m joining the raffle
Incredibly cool. Congratulations on all your hard work on Kittesla. I can't wait to see all the hard work done on your TransAm KITT and then your plans to integrate AI in this sounds awesome. Can't wait👍😁
Fantastic work, Peri Hoffractic! I've added myself to the app waitlist, can't wait to get my hands on it, mate!
Excellent! I can see why this would appeal to you matey ;)
I'll share this video with as many people as possible, Christian. 🔥You've done an amazing job, and coincidentally, I just ordered a new design Model 3 Performance. FSD subscription is a must when I get it. 👌
Thanks Lance! Enjoy the new ride!
The shifting accent really hits, especially when KITT goes Aussie. Shame, but understandable that Daniels doesn't want his voice to be included, can see why. And honestly, next gen KITT should be reminiscent of Daniels but not the exact facsimile. Freaking hyped to see this tech in the Pontiac, that's going to be trippy.
That lullaby though. And now for something completely different. lol
Great stuff, man. By the way, your editing is great.
Great video! Language translations are amazing
That was brilliant! Love the changing accent in KAITT :)
What a great idea! Cutting-edge. 🎉
amazing and fascinating vid, thanks so much - actually a bit scarey about the conversations you're able to have :)
One might not totally agree with the 'heart' reference, at the end of the video, as KITT's heart was not the engine, but surely the processor (or the programming, or both?). I reference this due to the fact that if one keeps in mind that if KITT is in a portable state then 'he' is not - technically - part of the car. As referenced previously by KITT (or KAITT) the car is but a shell, within which KITT has been placed inside of. (Just saying!).
This was totally cool. And I absolutely recognized the snippet from the old C64 Ghostbusters video game..or at least that is the computer I played it on. Great stroll down amnesia lane.
Hi, Retro Recipes. Thank you for a great video. And as usual K.I.T.T. was the star. With Michael Knight a close second. Well that is what K.I.T.T. called you.
I sure would LOVE to see an Android version of this KITT APP, even more specifically an add on voice for the WAZE navigation APP.
If only we were already at a stage (in April 2024) where KITT’s auto-drove technology was consumer grade. I do not mind repeating that having an amenity like it at my disposal would permit me to live anywhere without needing a real motorist to get my legally-blind self places where there’s no public transportation. It would also be worth getting an interfaced smart watch (when I haven’t strapped on a watch in seven or eight years) for opening the doors, hood and rear.
Peri... Some of the footage with the structure of the stadium... Shades of Knights of the fast lane in that 🤔
Waiting for this episode! Thank you and good work!
Great fun. I get the feeling KAITT is going to give you a run for your money conversationally.
Sitting in the Kitt car back in the 80s at Universal was a wonderful childhood memory
PJWeyyyy!
@@RetroRecipes Not quite Devon, but Dorset 😂 Thanks for sharing this project it’s been really brilliant to watch.
Another super fun and very impressive episode. beep boop beep boop
vroom vroom
This is awesome, I would hang out with Kitt ALL DAY LOL
I can't wait to win this thing!💪🏼❤️
Admit it.. how many times have you looped and blasted the knight rider music with the windows open? 😄Would be a high number for me in the first few weeks for sure..
Can you link your Apple Watch to KITT so he can read your Heart rate?? It would be cool for you to ask him to check your vital signs or for him to ask if you are ok when your heart rate is high. Love the channel, born in 76 so I'm into the same stuff, U gave me the best memory recap when re creating your old 80's bedroom, it was literally identical to mine. Thank you so much ! keep the quality content coming it helps keep us fans sane lol
Actually yes that's a possibility! @Justin you reading this? :)
Awesome!! That would be epic, The progress that has been made is amazing, cant wait to see the next episode
This is sooo cool! I’m only 33 so I didn’t watch this TV show but I can see why people were fascinated by it back in the day. My name is Michael too so it’s cool hearing if say Michael lol
I think this is awesome, well done!
Turbo Boost, as in Turbine Boost Boost. ah memories.
Woah, that is a smart alec KAITT. Does it come with a nag function? Cool app and very well integrated into KITTesla. Wasn't an evil Devon included in the original missions? I hope Ladyfractic is comforted by you not being a serial monogamist, but perhaps not a lone wolf. Junifractic would also be very put out by that idea. A great video as always my fellow colourblind friend. I'm looking forward to the KAITT lullaby remix album. It should be a big seller. Nice one Perifractic.
I do love a superb biscuit with my cup of tea. ♥
😂 Turbo Boost! 😂❤
Turbo Boobs!
Very nice :) soon AI will be able to do your VFX for you. And Tesla should definitely buy the rights and make the cars able to do KITT in real life.
Challenge:- do a glossy black kitt cybertruck.
It just needs the ejector seat and it's complete.
AMAZINGLY COOL 🥶THANKS FOR THE ADVENTURE DOWN MEMORY LANE 🤗‼️
"Hey KITT, why do you look like a Cylon?"
Because Larson had loads of spare ones haha
I love the 1991 tv movie theme
Enzo Music.
Cool stuff 😎 thanks for showing
8:50 Are you trying to have a complete cast of Knight Rider? You already have Babyfractic Bonny! If it is a boy will you call him Devon?
Just saw Chatgpt 4o demos and this came to my mind.
This is awesome, great use of AI.. every so often it sounded more like Jarvis (Vision). 😂
Top notch work! My only criticism is to stop advertising your raffle as you are diluting my chances 😂
Haha okay then!
I already entered.. I would love to win, since my old Tesla got totalled, and I'm a huge Knight rider fan!! I used to have Knight rider toys as a child and currently have a Knight Industries shirt. And have all the seasons on DVD. I even owned a Trans Am in the day..
It would be cool if you could do a Devon Miles interface?
This is simply brilliant.
That’s really really good. Well done.
This is just a matter of time…amazing
Super impressive. Shame he doesn't sound like the original but I totally understand why, thanks for clarifying it in the "mission". I think the voice needs a little more work as it shifts between accents but hey, early days and what an achievement already... did you consider contacting Val Kilmer (the other KITT)? :) I wonder if the younglings you spoke to actually thought you were talking about Knight Rider "The Transformers Edition" reboot rather than the original 80s series. Oh and sorry to hear that your car doesn't consider you a celebrity... though perhaps he just sees you as an influencer instead :)