Method and apparatus in a motor vehicle for automated driving

A device for the automated driving of a motor vehicle, the device comprising:

• an environment-perception apparatus for detecting objects in provided environment data;
• a scenario-interpretation apparatus for selecting a current scenario from a provided set of known scenarios based on the detected objects, wherein a scenario has at least one elementary situation assigned at least one monitoring region and an enable criterion as attributes;
• a maneuver-planning apparatus;
• and
• a controller,
• wherein the scenario-interpretation apparatus estimates a destination point for a current elementary situation to interrogate information about the monitoring region, associated with the elementary situation, of the environment-perception apparatus, and checks for the presence of the at least one enable criterion of the current elementary situation based on the interrogated information, and
• wherein the controller drives the motor vehicle, insofar as the at least one enable criterion is satisfied, along a trajectory, planned by the maneuver-planning apparatus, as far as the destination point in an automated state by controlling at least one actuator system of the motor vehicle, and the scenario-interpretation apparatus processes, after the reaching of the destination point, a subsequent elementary situation of the current scenario.