29th Mar 2008
Driver’s Safety Films: Knights on the Highway
American Road Builder’s Association brought you Knights on the Highway, an odd combination of praising truckers and advice on night driving.
Sponsored by Chevrolet, it has a very mild approach (hardly surprising — would you want your brand name tied to mutilated bodies and catastrophic vehicle failure?). It is introduced by the man with the worst screen presence ever. Seriously. He can’t even find the camera half the time.
It’s quite dated (have you ever used hand signals?), and some advice is a bit odd (like blinking your lights). Overall, it’s a forgettable and useless addition to the genre.
(Sorry, Buzz, the knights don’t joust. In fact, they don’t really seem to be a critical part of the film at all. And the whole analogy starts to fall apart when you realize that medieval knights didn’t have blinking lights on their horses, and typically didn’t drive them at night anyway.)
Yeah, I was disappointed there wasn’t more about the knights. It was hardly even about chivalry on the road.