(the Knight Auto-Cybernetic Roving Robotic-Exoskeleton) based on the original A.I.
came around the turn of the 21st century when the NSA had Graiman develop K.A.R.R. The greatest leap in the advancement of the technology that would become K.I.T.T. Over the decades, Graiman advanced and refined the technology.
Charles Graiman's programming and software that he began developing back in the late 1970's/early 1980's for Wilton Knight and Knight Industries.