Method for predicting a driving maneuver in a driver assistance system

A driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, comprising:

• a prediction module configured to predict a driving maneuver in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, the prediction module configured to:
• recording, based on dynamic data of the vehicle detected using sensors, a history of a driving maneuver which is not yet completed,
• predict, based on the history, a future course of the driving maneuver,
• represent multiple hypotheses for potentially occurring driving maneuvers by respective associated sets of parameters,
• calculate a theoretical history of the driving maneuver based on the parameters for each hypothesis of the hypotheses,
• compare the recorded history to at least one of the theoretical histories,
• determine and output as a prediction result, based on a degree of similarity of the recorded history and the at least one of the theoretical histories, a hypothesis which describes the presently occurring driving maneuver with the highest probability.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is stored program code for predicting a driving maneuver in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, the program code, when executed by a computer of the driver assistance system, causing the computer to perform the following steps:

• recording, based on dynamic data of the vehicle detected using sensors, a history of a driving maneuver which is not yet completed;
• predicting, based on the history, a future course of the driving maneuver;
• representing multiple hypotheses for potentially occurring driving maneuvers by respective associated sets of parameters;
• calculating a theoretical history of the driving maneuver based on the parameters for each hypothesis of the hypotheses;
• comparing the recorded history to at least one of the theoretical histories;
• determining and outputting as a prediction result, based on a degree of similarity of the recorded history and the at least one of the theoretical histories, a hypothesis which describes the presently occurring driving maneuver with the highest probability.