Estimating risk of a yaw instability of a vehicle

A computer-implemented method for handling yaw instability of a vehicle, comprising:

• by a processor device of a computer system, using separate prediction models for a short-term time period and a long-term time period for predicting future steering angle information for the short-term time period, future steering angle information for the long-term time period, a future longitudinal motion of the vehicle for the short-term time period and a future longitudinal motion of the vehicle for the long-term time period, wherein the short-term time period is shorter than the long-term time period,
• wherein predicting the future steering angle information and respective future longitudinal motion of the vehicle for the short-term time period is based on current and/or historical steering angle information and/or longitudinal motions of the vehicle, and wherein predicting the future steering angle information and/or the future longitudinal motion for the short-term time period comprises estimating a rate of change in the current steering angle information based at least partly on the historical steering angle information and/or a rate of change in the current longitudinal motion based at least partly on the historical longitudinal motion of the vehicle, and predicting the future steering angle information and/or the future longitudinal motion based on the estimated rate of change,
• by the processor device, based on the respective predicted future steering angle information and future longitudinal motion of the vehicle, estimating a respective short-term and long-term risk for yaw instability of the vehicle, and
• by the processor device, on the basis of the estimated short-term risk and long-term risk, respectively, determining whether or not to trigger an alert and/or to trigger a preventive action for preventing a yaw instability of the vehicle.