Method for controlling a personal protection system of a vehicle, and control device

A control device for controlling a personal protection system of a vehicle, comprising:

• a control arrangement configured for controlling the personal protection system of the vehicle, by performing the following:
• reading in an item of driving program information representing a driving program of the vehicle, and/or at least one item of additional information;
• evaluating the item of driving program information and/or the additional item of information to obtain an item of evaluation information, an off-road driving signal, indicating off-road driving of the vehicle, being produced as the item of evaluation information if the evaluation yields the result that the vehicle is in an off-road driving program and/or is traveling off a surfaced roadway, and/or an on-road driving signal, indicating on-road driving of the vehicle, being produced as the item of evaluation information if the evaluation yields the result that the vehicle is not in an off-road driving program and/or is driving on a surfaced roadway;
• and
• producing a control signal for controlling the personal protection system using the item of evaluation information.

A computer readable medium having a computer program, which is executable by a processor, comprising:

• a program code arrangement having program code for controlling a personal protection system of a vehicle, by performing the following:
• reading in an item of driving program information representing a driving program of the vehicle, and/or at least one item of additional information;
• evaluating the item of driving program information and/or the additional item of information to obtain an item of evaluation information, an off-road driving signal, indicating off-road driving of the vehicle, being produced as the item of evaluation information if the evaluation yields the result that the vehicle is in an off-road driving program and/or is traveling off a surfaced roadway, and/or an on-road driving signal, indicating on-road driving of the vehicle, being produced as the item of evaluation information if the evaluation yields the result that the vehicle is not in an off-road driving program and/or is driving on a surfaced roadway;
• and
• producing a control signal for controlling the personal protection system using the item of evaluation information.