Valentine's products basically came onto the market at the same time as radar guns. He was right there at the cutting edge reverse engineering new technology.
And regardless of how you feel about the legality now, "speeding" was also a new concept at the time. There was no consistent federal speed limit rules. There were rules about pedestrian safety and reckless driving, and there were periods of gas conservation rules during WWII. But there was not a strong moral basis to stay under a certain speed on a motorway.
Valentine was in every way a hacker. The radar detector is right up there with the Wifi Pineapple and Flipper Zero.
And regardless of how you feel about the legality now, "speeding" was also a new concept at the time. There was no consistent federal speed limit rules. There were rules about pedestrian safety and reckless driving, and there were periods of gas conservation rules during WWII. But there was not a strong moral basis to stay under a certain speed on a motorway.
Valentine was in every way a hacker. The radar detector is right up there with the Wifi Pineapple and Flipper Zero.