Patent ID: 8666629

Claim:
A method for determining a driving strategy for a driver of a motor vehicle, the method comprising: receiving local information about a plurality of other motor vehicles using a receiving device, wherein the plurality of other motor vehicles are ahead of the motor vehicle and are relevant to the traffic situation; recording the local information using the receiving device; and deriving driving information from the local information so as to provide a driving strategy in the form of at least one action recommendation for the driver, the at least one action recommendation including a recommended speed (v emp ) that is based on received speeds of the plurality of other motor vehicles and on a measured actual speed of the motor vehicle, wherein the recommended speed (v emp ) is determined from a minimum of (v des , λv des +(1−λ)v avg ), wherein v emp =the recommended speed, v des =a desired speed, v avg =an average speed of the plurality of other motor vehicles, and λ is a compensation parameter.