Patent ID: 6868331

Claim:
A method for outputting traffic information in a motor vehicle, in which traffic messages are stored together with the respective position of the route section or point to which they relate, the positions of the traffic messages are compared with the respective position of the motor vehicle in which the traffic information is to be output in order to determine the distances between the respective positions in the traffic messages and the position of this motor vehicle, the traffic messages are sorted in accordance to the determined distances, and the traffic messages sorted according to distances are output as sorted according to distances starting with the smallest distance; transmitting each traffic message together with an item of updating information which describes the anticipated duration of the general relevance of the respective traffic message, detecting an average vehicle speed, logically linking the average vehicle speed to the distances assigned to the traffic messages and comparing the average vehicle speed and distances assigned to the traffic message with the updating information in order to detect the specific relevance of the respective traffic message, and outputting only traffic messages that have been accessed and are relevant to the respective vehicle in terms of timing.