Patent ID: 7668633

Claim:
An electronic control system for a vehicle, comprising a driver request module for determining characteristic quantities with respect to the driver's request from data at least representative of pedal travels, movements of the foot changing between the pedals and the brake pressure of the brake system, and a risk calculator for determining risk potentials from predefined and current vehicle data and additional data, the risk calculator performing at least an assessment of the condition of danger of the vehicle and the occupants in the vehicle and, in case of need, outputs controlling interventions graded according to the risk potential for controlling actuators, and an arbitration unit for receiving outputs from the risk calculator and performing an assessment with the data determined in the driver request module with regard to the characteristic quantities determined in the driver request module depending on an action influencing the driving dynamics of the vehicle brought about by the controlling interventions and, depending on the result of the assessment, releasing the graded controlling interventions to a limited extent, releasing them in their entirety, or blocking them.