Method, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium for Determining Defective Vehicles

Abstract

A method determines defective vehicles, wherein the defective vehicles are a subset of vehicles and the vehicles are divided into a plurality of vehicle types. Then method includes providing an expected value of a number of predefined messages to be sent for each vehicle type, and determining an actual value of a number of predefined messages sent for each vehicle. The method also includes determining a deviation value for each vehicle, wherein each deviation value is representative of a difference between the actual value for the vehicle and the expected value for a corresponding vehicle type. The method further includes determining a defective subgroup of defective vehicles depending on the deviation values, wherein the actual value for each vehicle of the defective subgroup is different from the expected value for each corresponding vehicle type.

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