Has anyone seen the new GE add on tv?
The one that features “Kit” from Knight Rider, talking about all the new electronics the locomotive has, (gps, locomotive status like fuel, tonnage, all that) and featuring a nice clean NS locomotive?
Two trains of thought…GE and NS have a deal for Norfolk Sothern’s next locomotive deal, and GE needed a Class 1 to promote their products features to the public…or both NS and GE are prepping the public for some version of PTC/remote operation?
Great commercial. My own thoughts are that your first thought is the one. It is nice PR and looking at it aside from being a rail fan - as Jane Public - It just gives me a little sound bite I can understand and shows me that trains (which I would normally ignore until they annoyed me) are very up-to-date.
CSX has always had great commercials and they inform me without giving me more information than I can handle or even care about at all.
I mute 99% of the commercials, but a train, even in a commercial, is always interesting.
With what KITT did for Pontiac and GM, I’m not sure Son of GEVO wants to be in the same state or associated with “him”.[:-,][:-,][:-,]
I’m disappointed. Even with KITT as the spokescar, the GEVOs STILL don’t have this option!!
I just saw this on TV thought it was pretty clever advertising
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Its probably just GE getting more mileage out of the small fortune they spent on licensing all those characters for the “Smarter Machines” commercial.
I think they discontinued that option. The turbos couldn’t handle it and exploded pretty often.
Maybe GE is hinting back to GM to bring back Pontiac and one of the greatest cars ever made, the Trans AM?
K.I.T.T.
Knight Industries Two Thousand
GPS on a locomotive huh? You guys make wrong turns or what? [:D]
Nah, just sometimes we’re kinda hard to find when the trainmaster wants to bring us our ice cream cones!
I just wish for once Knight Rider would depict the Firebird Trans Am correctly, “Kitt, we have to chase the villians!” Chugg chhug shpuuutter, clonk. “Sorry David, my electronic ignition system just failed and my automatic transmission also just packed it.”
Well thats what kept happening to my nephews …[;)]
Our ALCOs have a Turbo Boost guage, but no switch…