A method for configuring a channel encoding during a transfer of data packets from a transmitting apparatus towards a receiver apparatus, which are both in a traffic environment and of which at least one moves, wherein, by a control device of the transmitting apparatus: environmental data, which describes a predetermined environmental character of the traffic environment, and position data, which describes a relative position of the transmitting apparatus and the receiver apparatus to each other, are ascertained, based on the environmental data and the position data, by means of a predetermined radio link model, it is predicted by a prediction if a data packet, currently to be sent, of the data packets can be successfully decoded and/or reconstructed in the receiver apparatus with a currently adjusted encoding configuration of the channel encoding, and if the prediction does not signal success, it is switched to an extended encoding configuration, which generates a greater redundancy than the current encoding configuration, and the data packet to be sent is encoded with the extended encoding configuration and sent, characterized in that: the radio link model includes that a decision relating to an existence of a direct line of sight is generated, and if the existence of the direct line of sight is signaled, a parameter of a calculating rule for a distance-dependent success probability relating to decoding and/or reconstructing the data packet is adjusted, wherein the existence of the line of sight is ascertained in the radio link model by means of an artificial neural network, which is trained to associate statement data relating to a probability of the existence of the line of sight with the ascertained environmental data and position data. environmental data, which describes a predetermined environmental character of the traffic environment, and position data, which describes a relative position of the transmitting apparatus and the receiver apparatus to each other, are ascertained, based on the environmental data and the position data, by means of a predetermined radio link model, it is predicted by a prediction if a data packet, currently to be sent, of the data packets can be successfully decoded and/or reconstructed in the receiver apparatus with a currently adjusted encoding configuration of the channel encoding, and if the prediction does not signal success, it is switched to an extended encoding configuration, which generates a greater redundancy than the current encoding configuration, and the data packet to be sent is encoded with the extended encoding configuration and sent, characterized in that: the radio link model includes that a decision relating to an existence of a direct line of sight is generated, and if the existence of the direct line of sight is signaled, a parameter of a calculating rule for a distance-dependent success probability relating to decoding and/or reconstructing the data packet is adjusted, wherein the existence of the line of sight is ascertained in the radio link model by means of an artificial neural network, which is trained to associate statement data relating to a probability of the existence of the line of sight with the ascertained environmental data and position data.