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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever been saved by a radar detector? Was it one with the little arrows on it, to tell you where the cop actually is? If so, you have Michael Valentine to thank for that money you saved. Pour ...

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.