The first episode of the new Knight Rider was not as interesting as the pilot movie. While we can make some futurology we need to take care of the things we would like to see. For instance, seeing KITT reading a book that way is too high tech.
In the other hand, and being it weird enough, special effects of the older series were quite better. When KITT jumps over other cars right in the beginning it is too easy to notice that that are all special effects going on.
Then, there are some stupidities. I can understand to have a morphing car, and that is awesome. But if the car is already morphed, how does Michael gets on the truck that easy?
Science Fiction is nice. Scenes incoherence is stupidity!