The production attempted to use a Pontiac Banshee concept car as KITT, but was unable to secure one. As a result, they hired Jay Ohrberg's Star Cars Inc. to alter a 1991 Dodge Stealth to use as the Knight 4000. This custom car also made appearances in CHiPs '99 (1998) and Power Rangers Time Force (2001).
The movie is a pilot for a proposed series starring Susan Norman and Carmen Argenziano. It was not picked up.
The film contains several attempts to predict what the then-future world of the year 2000 would hold, most of which have proved incorrect.
The film predicts that Dan Quayle would be president of the United States in early 2000. When the movie was released in 1991, Quayle was serving as vice president of the United States under President George H. W. Bush.
James Doohan wasn't originally going to appear in the movie, but was offered the brief cameo when the original actor couldn't do the scene.