Patent ID: 8606466

Claim:
A method for controlling at least one reversible occupant protection measure of a motor vehicle precrash safety system, the method comprising the acts of: receiving a plurality of input signals, wherein the input signals indicate a potential risk of an accident; mapping the plurality of input signals onto a plurality of different precrash severity indicators, wherein each precrash severity indicator indicates at least one of an expected probability and a severity of the accident, the precrash severity indicators being set as a function of the input signals; filtering the plurality of precrash severity indicators such that, for a determined period of time, any precrash severity indicator having an equally high or lower priority than a priority of a previous precrash severity indicator is suppressed; and controlling, without regard to any precrash severity indicators that have been suppressed, the at least one reversible occupant protection measure of the motor vehicle as a function of the filtered precrash severity indicators.