Patent ID: 6957142
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: G01C,G07C

Abstract:
1. A method for evaluating a driving style, the method comprising the acts of: continuously sensing a current driving state by reference to associated driving state parameters and continuously sensing a current traffic situation by reference to associated traffic situation parameters; determining an associated reference driving state in relation to a respectively sensed current traffic situation using a predefinable traffic situation reference driving state relation, the associated reference driving state representing a desirable driving state in a respective traffic situation with respect to a predefinable evaluation criterion; evaluating the sensed current driving state by comparison with the respectively associated reference driving state in accordance with the predefinable evaluation criterion; outputting one or more acknowledgment information items relating to a driving style during a respective preceding traffic situation, wherein at least two groups of the acknowledgement information items associated with two different values of a predefinable category parameter are predefined as driving style acknowledgement information items available for output; and wherein an acknowledgment generation criterion is predefined such that an amount of acknowledgment information items of one of the two groups output during a journey remains larger than an amount of acknowledgment information items of another of the two groups which are output, or an amount of acknowledgment information items of the one group which are output has a predefinable relationship with that of the other group.