merge with Mike as before, and comes after KITT to destroy him and get Mike back. Despite KITT lacking his transformation protocols and weapons, Mike takes him into battle anyway. Using a grappling hook, Mike and KITT pull out KARR's chest plate, freeing Alex but also killing him, and Turbo Boost through his body, destroying him. Mike is later told that the KARR project has been permanently abandoned. F.L.A.G. Mobile Command Center KITT has access to a mobile "garage" called the F.L.A.G. Mobile Command Center, which was a semi-trailer truck owned by the Foundation. In most episodes, it is a GMC General. The trailer has an extendable ramp that dropped down and allows KITT to drive inside even when the truck is in motion. The trailer was loaded with spare parts and equipment for KITT. It also had a computer lab where technicians Bonnie or April would work and conduct repairs and maintenance while in transit. In "KITTnap", KITT is kidnapped and Michael and RC3 use the tractor (which has been disconnected from the trailer) to go and find him. Reception and significance KITT, despite being just an AI without a body and with only a rudimentary personality, has proven to be a popular character. One of the reasons for KITT's attractivness was in the fact that "domesticated" then-powerful technology (computers), making it "accessible, flexible and portable" in a way that was also "reliable and secure". Nickianne Moody has argued that through KITT, Knight Rider became one of "the first popular texts to visualize and narrativize the potential of [computer] technologies to transform daily life". On the other hand, scholars have also looked at the relationship between KITT and its driver, Knight, in the context of the relationship between "man" and "technology", criticizing it for being a metaphor for "masculinity", and even a "classic example of penis-extension". Nonetheless, Moody argues that the relationship between Knight and KITT was more complex and nuanced than many "buddy-ship" relationships of other "Cold War warriors" in the Hollywood works of its era. KITT has also been discussed in the context of the human-robot (or human-AI) interaction. KITT has also proven to be influential for the design of real-world computers for vehicles, with a number of studies noting that the science-fiction vision of the 1980s, portrayed in the show, is coming to be realized in the real life as of the early 21st century. Shaked