This might be a dumb questions but how did KITT..
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This might be a dumb questions but how did KITT..
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I'm sorry if I'm the only dork in here who doesn't know this but.. how did they make the car move without a driver? In alot of scenes, KITT is being operated without a driver in the seat. This has always interested me. Was it remote control operated?
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I'm sorry if I'm the only dork in here who doesn't know this but.. how did they make the car move without a driver? In alot of scenes, KITT is being operated without a driver in the seat. This has always interested me. Was it remote control operated?
Tetsu
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they had a method called a "blind driver." they had a modified drivers seat where the stunt driver technically sat inside the seat in which he saw out the space in the head rest and his hands came out of the seat a bit beneath where the dash is so you couldn't really see his arms. actually in "flight of pheonix" when KITT comes back from being stolen you can see the driver's arms coming out of the seat if you look closely.
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There are also certain scenes where if you look closely the camera catches the "bag" behind the driver's seat where the stunt driver is.
Back in the 80s it probably would have required too many visible antennae and big technology attatched to the car to drive it remotely. If they had to do that it probably wouldn't have looked realistic.
Back in the 80s it probably would have required too many visible antennae and big technology attatched to the car to drive it remotely. If they had to do that it probably wouldn't have looked realistic.
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i've seen them drive a car remotely on Myth Busters and it looked really realistic. they were even doing 360s with it but also today they could use alot of the same techniques they did back then but digtally edit out things like the drivers arms if you were able to see them.Paul wrote:There are also certain scenes where if you look closely the camera catches the "bag" behind the driver's seat where the stunt driver is.
Back in the 80s it probably would have required too many visible antennae and big technology attatched to the car to drive it remotely. If they had to do that it probably wouldn't have looked realistic.
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You're right, I didn't think of that, even though I saw that episode of Mythbusters too. But that was nowadays...I still think 20 years ago it would have been a lot trickier to do that and make it look plausible. (At least as plausible as a guy in a bag behind the seat anyhow! )LadyV2000 wrote:i've seen them drive a car remotely on Myth Busters and it looked really realistic. they were even doing 360s with it but also today they could use alot of the same techniques they did back then but digtally edit out things like the drivers arms if you were able to see them.Paul wrote:There are also certain scenes where if you look closely the camera catches the "bag" behind the driver's seat where the stunt driver is.
Back in the 80s it probably would have required too many visible antennae and big technology attatched to the car to drive it remotely. If they had to do that it probably wouldn't have looked realistic.
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AHHH! You beat me to it. I was just looking for the image.
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I'm wondering how they got KITT's gull wing wheel to move in one scene from "Killer K.I.T.T." There's no hitch or mount physically connecting KITT to the camera truck. Yet you can see KITT's wheel move and nobody's in the driver or passenger seats. I guess the question is...
How did they do that?
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Same method.Lost Knight wrote:You can catch a glimpse of the stunt driver's arms going through the seat in "Killer K.I.T.T." right after KITT runs Michael into a shack that he destroys. A quick eye can see the arms when KITT backs out to leave.
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