A method for detecting and characterizing a driving behavior of a driver or an autopilot in a transportation vehicle, the method comprising:
- recording data points by at least one acceleration sensor, wherein the data points indicate a lateral acceleration and a longitudinal acceleration of the transportation vehicle over a time interval;
- generating an image space, by a control unit, as a GG diagram from the data points of at least one sub-section of the time interval;
- transforming the image space, by the control unit, by a transformation into a parameter space, wherein the transformation is a Hough transform or a Radon transform;
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- acquiring coordinates of accumulation points in the parameter space by the control unit, wherein the control unit determines a classification value and/or a classification profile relating to the driving behavior by a classification algorithm from the coordinates of the accumulation points.