Method and system for avoiding distracting a vehicle occupant

An information suppressing system adapted for avoiding distracting an occupant of a vehicle with superfluous information via a medium associated with the vehicle, the medium being adapted to present at least a first piece of information associated with at least a first entity located in a current vicinity of the vehicle, the information suppressing system comprising:

• a status data determining unit adapted for determining status data, the status data comprising one or more status data parameters reflecting current conditions;
• a comparing unit adapted for determining whether the at least first piece of information is currently superfluous, based on comparing at least a first status data parameter of the status data with at least one predetermined suppression criterion;
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• a suppressing unit adapted for suppressing the at least first piece of information if the at least first piece of information is determined to be superfluous, such that at least a portion of the at least first piece of information is prevented from being presented via the medium.

A computer program product comprising a computer program including computer program code stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium for execution by a computer or a processor to carry out a method for avoiding distracting an occupant of a vehicle with superfluous information via a medium associated with the vehicle, the medium being adapted to present at least a first piece of information associated with at least a first entity located in a current vicinity of the vehicle, wherein the computer program code is configured for execution by the computer or the processor to:

• determine status data comprising one or more status data parameters reflecting current conditions;
• determine whether the at least first piece of information is currently superfluous, based on comparing at least a first status data parameter of the status data with at least one predetermined suppression criterion;
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• suppress the at least first piece of information if the at least first piece of information is determined to be superfluous, such that at least a portion of the at least first piece of information is prevented from being presented via the medium.