Patt Morrison for Friday, 9/16/2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, September 16, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

 

1:00 – 2:00

OPEN

 

 

2:00 – 2:40

What makes for a better teen driver – training or time?

More than a decade has passed since California tightened its restrictions on younger drivers, limiting the number of hours they can spend behind the wheel and whom they can have with them in the vehicle. And now new figures have emerged that suggest the regulations may have had unintended consequences. While deaths of younger drivers, those who are 16 or 17 years old, have diminished over this period, fatalities of 18 – 19 year old drivers, who don’t have to take training and are not subject to restrictions, have gone up. These restrictions coupled with mandatory training for drivers who get their licenses at 16 can be seen as an obstacle to safety, with some teens waiting until their 18th birthday to get their licenses, allowing them to circumvent the training programs and driving restrictions. Is there a need to ramp up restrictions on older drivers for their own good, and how old is too old for training and supervision when the safety is at stake?

 

Guests:

Dr. Bharath Chakravarthy, MD, residency program director for Emergency Medicine in UC Irvine’s School of Medicine

Tom Milewski, lead instructor for Drivers Ed Direct, which has a program that focuses on teaching teen drivers

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2:40 – 3:00

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

What font does KPCC use on its website? And why does it use that font? Simon Garfield, author of “Just My Type: A Book About Fonts,” probably knows the answer. Fonts may seem trivial but the role they play in our lives is large: from billboards to album covers to greeting cards, each font is picked carefully. Garfield is a “typophile,” who can tell you why you should NEVER use Comic Sans and why Trajan evokes memories of bad movies. What is the most effective font for us to use in emails, Microsoft Word, and resumes? Garfield joins Patt to make us keenly aware of that which is all around us but we usually ignore, and to help us decide carefully before we type.

 

Guest:

Simon Garfield, author of “Just My Type”

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