American inventor and radar detector pioneer Michael D. Valentine has died at the age of 74 at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the president of Valentine Research and one of the most influential ...

An engineer who loved to drive fast, he helped build an industry-altering device that made its debut after the national speed limit of 55 m.p.h. became law. By Richard Sandomir Michael Valentine, an ...

Michael Valentine, an electrical engineer with a passion for fast cars and open roads who gave drivers a ticket-avoiding tool as one of the key developers behind the modern radar detector, died Sept.

Many auto enthusiasts might recognize Valentine from full-page ads like this that regularly appeared in Road and Track magazine for the Valentine V1, back in the halcyon days of print media. Those ads ...