Posted on 05/13/2026 4:21:09 AM PDT by DFG
NYC’s traffic cameras are now writing fiction.
The famous “Knight Rider” car KITT has been hit with a speeding ticket in Brooklyn — despite sitting on display inside an Illinois automotive museum for years.
The Volo Museum, based north of Chicago, said it received a $50 ticket from the New York City Department of Finance tied to its replica of the famous TV car from the 1980s series starring David Hasselhoff.
“Well, this is a new one … we got this in the mail today. This is 100% legit,” the museum wrote in a Facebook post on May 7.
According to the citation, a traffic camera recorded the car speeding through a Brooklyn school zone on Ocean Parkway on April 22 at 1:02 p.m., clocking it at 36 mph in a 25 mph zone.
The museum said the vehicle — a black 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am replica — has not left the display in its building and has been parked there for years.
“A traffic camera captured Knight Rider’s KITT speeding down the streets of New York City. The camera captured the novelty license plate (not a real plate…and also a California plate).”
“Their official system ties the novelty plate to Volo Museum and we got a bill for $50!!” the post continued.
“You can’t make this up! Our KITT hasn’t moved from our museum in years! Does anyone have (David) Hasselhoffs number? He owes us $50!!!!”
The museum also shared a photo of the ticket issued by the New York City Department of Finance.
Museum officials believe the city’s system may have mistakenly linked a novelty “Knight” license plate to the museum’s display vehicle.
The car at the museum is not one of the original screen-used vehicles from “Knight Rider,” which aired from 1982 to 1986.
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I have an antique vehicle with plates from the year it was made. For years I have been getting toll bills for some car dealers vehicle. I tried calling the toll authority and providing documents they wanted but nothing ever changed because I never reached anyone there whose IQ exceeded their shoe size or even cared for that matter. I spent hours on the phone and ran all over creation getting documents and sending them with a signed tracking. The bills would get to multiple hundreds of dollars and I just trashed them. Then the lawyer from the collections letters arrive and also go in the trash. At some point someone with an operational brain looks at it and dismisses it.
Red lights on the front of non-emergency vehicles are generally illegal.
Name the actor who voiced KITT. No cheating. =;^)
It might have been KARR.
Seven days after buying my Thunderbird I got a 30-day late notice for a Philadelphia parking ticket. Never mind that I had brand-new tags so they couldn’t have been recorded, and I didn’t even own the car at the time. It took writing a letter and dealing on the phone with a salty “woman of color” for 45 minutes to clear it up.
My question is, why is from the Dept of Finance and not Dept of Transporation?
I had this exact same thing happen to me quite a few years ago when these cameras started to become popular. Was in DC back in 2004 or 2005 for siteseeing. Moved to FL from PA in 2008 and shortly after being here I get this same sort of citation. There were two pictures of my vehicle (front and back) on a highway in DC that I was never on in the first place when there and on a week day that I was working and living in FL. I sent the citation back with a notation in big red letters across the page to prove that picture is valid. Never heard a word about it since.
Everyone should get a Knight license plate. Imagine thousands of these plates! No your honor, my plate is a political protest which my First Amendment rights cover!
Oh, I’m blanking on his name, but he was a doctor on St. Elsewhere and in that car movie with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn.
William Daniels, maybe?
Couldn’t they have filed a criminal complaint with the FBI and USPS accusing NYC of mail fraud?
Maybe. But, it’s Chitcago, so ....
LOL. Reminds me of my dad watching and loving MacGyver until he built a bamboo airplane. He was done after that.
That made him turn it off???? He made a radio out of a banana
I guess it was accumulative. :^)
Haven’t been to Volo for a few years. I suppose when I go there next time the ticket will be part of the display for this car.
Even Mamdani can’t do it illegally, but I guess that wouldn’t stop himm from trying.
Kitt is perfectly capable of removing itself from the museum, driving 900 miles to NYC, stopping the bad guys, and returning to the museum seemingly undisturbed overnight without needing a stop for gasoline.
Hasn’t anyone seen the show?
What always amazed me was that the genius mechanic (there was more than one) was a always a knockout 27 year-old woman with an immaculate jumpsuit. She could convert a gasoline car to hydrogen over a weekend in the early 1980s.
The other thing was the way the car could defy physics. In one episode, Kitt was in a tug of war in a dirt lot with a bulldozer, and Kitt was able to pull the bulldozer that was going the other way. I don’t car if the car was powered by a JATO, unless in weighs 19 tons, it won’t get the traction to pull an unwilling bulldozer.
Even Mamdani can’t do it illegally, but I guess that wouldn’t stop himm from trying.
Racketeering and Mail Fraud.
Start throwing the folks at the New York City Department of Finance in jail.
A DEI hire working for the state under a racist pigmentation and/or genitalia contract read it wrong.
The government can claim indemnification but the company that won the bid to do the work under a DEI contract is not indemnified.
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