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July 15

Car crash reports for various models?

So we've got the EURO-NCAP rating for car crashes which is all very well and good. Most cars getting atleast 4 stars, usually 5.

But is there any sort of website that keeps track of real life accidents and gives some insight on how cars are doing in real world accidents. Obviously I don't expect much on new models, but after a few years it would be interesting to see how real life vs the NCAP rating claims compare. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.211.241.170 (talk) 11:48, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

One problem with such statistics is that different models may be driven differently. A sports can may be driven more aggressively than a minivan, for example. So, do more deaths in the sports car mean it's more dangerous, or just that the drivers of those cars are more careless ? StuRat (talk) 21:26, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

NCAP also looks at crash avoidance technology, such as automatic braking,[1] therefore the carelessness of the driver has less impact (ha ha) than one might imagine. I suspect insurance companies probably record accidents by make and model but I couldn't find any. UK Govt looks at types of vehicles involved, cars, lorries, bikes etc.[2]--Ykraps (talk) 13:36, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Census-designated places

Hello! Is there a official list of census-designated places of each county of the US state of Florida? I didn't find anything so far except the main page of the US Census Bureau where you can search for particular places. But I'm looking for an overview of all places. Regards, Dionysos1988 (talk) 13:38, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

I don't use lists. I use the Tiger data. It has every form of census designated place you could imagine. The format is a shapefile. So, you will need a shapefile reader to open and view the files. You don't need a cartography tool to just see the lists. I know that the idea of using shapefiles is very scary. If you get past the intimidation, you will find that the census publishes nearly all map-based information in shapefile format and there is a lot of data just waiting for you to load. The files are free to download at https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_place.html 209.149.113.45 (talk) 13:47, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. But isn't there another source but the shapefile thing? Every shapefile program seems to be with costs. Also, I'm not very into working with maps, but I just want to have a list of each county. I don't understand why the county websites do not have these lists, for example. They just name the incorporated places. Regards, Dionysos1988 (talk) 19:07, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Alansohn stays on top of these for NJ, he may have advice for FL. μηδείς (talk) 20:55, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Dionysos1988, you should use the GNIS, which has a complete list and was updated several years ago to include ones newly designated for 2010 and ones removed for 2010. Just go to their search interface, select Florida for the state, type "Census Designated" in the name field (it returns partial matches unless you tell it not to), and click the Send Query button. This will return a list of all CDPs in the state (604 of them just now, when I ran this search), both current and former. The former ones are easy to filter out: they have (historical) at the end of the feature name. Note that there are only fifteen items on each page, but there's a "View and Print All" link that presents all of them on one page if clicked; I always click it. Once you're at the final results page, click any column label to get everything sorted by its contents; this way, you can get the whole list sorted by county.Nyttend (talk) 23:04, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

See this file, which lists places in Florida, with CDPs identified as such. Also see Florida: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts, where Table 8 shows the structure of cities and CDPs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alansohn (talk • contribs)