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Knight Rider: The Bullet Resistant Car

By Eric Wolff | December 11, 2008 6:39 pm

Screenshot from Knight RiderIf your primary method of thwarting criminals is a hyper-intelligent car, that car really needs to be bullet proof or else your career will be short. But if your hyper-intelligent car is also super fast and high-performance, you don’t want to install heavy armor panels that destroys that performance. The current version of  Knight Rider solves this problem with some nanotech magic, but the original relied on a special bullet-resistant coating,  the formulation of which was the source of some of the best episodes they ever aired (The Goliath episodes, for those conversant).

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