My enjoyment of Drive and what elements I think do and do not work in it has no relation to how referential it is to Knight Rider.

I love how the roidmude trio are now being treated as rogues, and their screen time isnt much but whenever they are on screen the plot moves along

The only good moment for Banno is when he is silenced by Krim, LOL. Anyway I find him quite boring, too. Heart and Nira are way better than this. I doubt We can really assume he is really the final boss just guessing some random connection o Knight

On the other hand, there are at least 5-6 episodes until the end, I doubt Banno would survive that long