Method for detecting and assessing reflections of at least one point on a road (5, 7), comprising the method steps of: - providing a mono camera; - generating at least two digital images of the at least one road point by means of the mono camera, wherein the generating of the images is effected from different recording perspectives (A, B) of the mono camera; - using algorithms of digital image processing for: - averaging the at least two generated images to obtain an average image; - forming an absolute difference or a squared difference between each image point in the average image and an associated column mean value; - distinguishing diffuse reflection and specular reflection of the road (5, 7) by assessing the absolute difference or the squared difference of the at least one road point in the at least two digital images, wherein a straight-line movement is assumed, so that, in the case of diffuse reflection, regions on the road that have been passed are very similar to the column mean value, whereas, in the case of specular reflections, the change of the appearance of the regions that have been passed exhibit great differences with respect to the column mean values, and - ascertaining road state information in dependence on the detected reflection. - providing a mono camera; - generating at least two digital images of the at least one road point by means of the mono camera, wherein the generating of the images is effected from different recording perspectives (A, B) of the mono camera; - using algorithms of digital image processing for: - averaging the at least two generated images to obtain an average image; - forming an absolute difference or a squared difference between each image point in the average image and an associated column mean value; - distinguishing diffuse reflection and specular reflection of the road (5, 7) by assessing the absolute difference or the squared difference of the at least one road point in the at least two digital images, wherein a straight-line movement is assumed, so that, in the case of diffuse reflection, regions on the road that have been passed are very similar to the column mean value, whereas, in the case of specular reflections, the change of the appearance of the regions that have been passed exhibit great differences with respect to the column mean values, and - averaging the at least two generated images to obtain an average image; - forming an absolute difference or a squared difference between each image point in the average image and an associated column mean value; - distinguishing diffuse reflection and specular reflection of the road (5, 7) by assessing the absolute difference or the squared difference of the at least one road point in the at least two digital images, wherein a straight-line movement is assumed, so that, in the case of diffuse reflection, regions on the road that have been passed are very similar to the column mean value, whereas, in the case of specular reflections, the change of the appearance of the regions that have been passed exhibit great differences with respect to the column mean values, and - ascertaining road state information in dependence on the detected reflection.