The person accountable for making certain many drivers fly beneath the radar and do not get dashing tickets has died.
An obituary for Mike (Michael) D. Valentine posted to Cincinnati.com confirmed the radar detector legend died on the age of 74 on September, 16, 2024. Valentine died at house unexpectedly, based on the obituary.
Founder, president, and CEO of Valentine Analysis, Valentine was a pioneer within the radar detection trade. His firm developed the V1, often known as the Valentine One, that modified the radar detection trade and recreation.
Valentine beforehand co-founded Cincinnati Microwave in 1976, which led to the event of the primary Escort-branded radar detectors. In 2020 Valentine instructed Highway & Monitor he left the corporate after taking a buyout within the Eighties.
Valentine One Gen2
As soon as Valentine’s non-compete expired within the early Nineteen Nineties he promptly based Valentine Analysis. Valentine’s new firm launched the Valentine One (V1), which was in contrast to any earlier radar detector with each front- and rear-facing detection sensors and arrows that pointed within the course the sign got here from. Valentine patented the design.
The detector’s iconic form and options set it other than different radar detectors available on the market for over 20 years.
In 2015, as soon as the patent expired, Escort, Valentine’s earlier firm, copied the arrow idea with its Max 360 radar detector.
Valentine Analysis stored the V1 alive for practically 30 years till it lastly changed the enduring detector with the V1 Gen2 in 2020. The second-generation Valentine One radar detector was billed as having navy tech for further sensitivity. The design stays much like the unique icon, however is packaged in a slimmer housing. The unique detector’s trademark layered knob interface morphed right into a single multi-function button on the entrance and two quantity buttons on the highest of the unit.
