Patent ID: 8096579

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: at least one first crash sensor arranged in a safety zone of the motor vehicle adapted to measure a motion variable of the motor vehicle; at least one second crash sensor arranged in a crash zone of the motor vehicle adapted to measure a second motion variable of the motor vehicle; an occupant protection device controllable via an ignition signal; a control unit adapted to ascertain the ignition signal as a function of at least one of (a) the measured motion variables and (b) a time average of each measured motion variable over at least a first time interval; at least one first triggering relationship adapted for ascertaining the ignition signal as a function of at least one of (a) the measured motion variables and (b) time averages of each measured motion variables over the first time interval; and at least one second triggering relationship for ascertaining the ignition signal as a function of at least one of (a) the motion variable measured by the first crash sensor and (b) the time average of the motion variable measured by the first crash sensor over the first time interval but not as a function of either (a) the second motion variable measured by the second crash sensor or (b) the time average of the second motion variable over the first time interval; wherein at least one of (a) the first triggering relationship and (b) the second triggering relationship is generated as a function of at least one of (a) the measured motion variables and (b) their time averages over one of (a) the first time interval and (b) the first time interval and the second time interval of a situation, for which a setpoint triggering time of the occupant protection device is known, but one of (a) the measured motion variables and (b) their time averages over one of (a) the first time interval and (b) the at least first time interval and the second time interval is disregarded in a training-suppression time interval one of (a) immediately prior to the setpoint triggering time of the occupant protection device or (b) immediately after the setpoint triggering time of the occupant protection device during the generation of one of (a) the first triggering relationship and (b) the second triggering relationship.