Quick identification of hazardous or at-risk objects in the surroundings of a vehicle

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for identifying potentially hazardous or at-risk objects in surroundings of a vehicle, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps:

• detecting an area of the surroundings using at least one event-based sensor, the event-based sensor including light-sensitive pixels, for respective ones of which the sensor is configured to output respective events assigned, respectively, to the respective pixels in response to respective relative changes of light intensity incident upon the respective pixels by at least a predefined percentage;
• assigning the respective events output by the sensor to objects in the detected area;
• and
• for each of at least one object of the objects to which one or more of the events are assigned:
• analyzing the one or more of the events assigned to the at least one object, thereby determining a present in-place movement of the respective object in which a place of the respective object subsequent to the movement and prior to the movement is at least partially the same;
• and
• ascertaining, from the present movement, an impending movement of the respective object into another place that conflicts with a present or planned trajectory of the vehicle and/or an impending change of state of the respective object causing a presence in the other place that conflicts with the present or planned trajectory of the vehicle.