I got my Valentine One in the mail a few days ago and I have some interesting observations.

1) The unit itself is MUCH smaller than it used to be. I remember in 1997 when my college girlfriend had her dad mail her a V1 for her cross country drive home. That thing was a beast. Mine is smaller and lighter.

2) It is very sensitive. The bogey counter showed 9 today while I sat in my car waiting for class with no possible traffic around.

3) I found a speed trap near my mom's house and drove through it a number of times to test the arrows (fast enough to be gunned but slow enough for them not to pull me over of course). It seems if you have the unit mounted too close to your rear view mirror, signals bounce off it and hit the rear sensor. More than once I found that police in front of me registered a rear arrow.

4) Despite its amazing number of warnings driving through urban areas, on the highway to school it didn't go off once until there was actually a cop gunning me and was able to slow from ridiculous to less offensive speeding.

To sum up, with a little more experence, I'm sure that I'll be glad I spent what at first seemed to me as an excessive amount of money over the escort 8500.

 

Did you change it to 'L' instead of leaving it at 'A'... this will change the city driving exprience a lot.

-Shing