Safety system for a motor bike and method for triggering a safety system

A safety system for a motor bike, comprising:

• an arithmetic control unit;
• at least one sensor;
• and
• an interface;
• wherein:
• the arithmetic control unit is configured to:
• (i) receive, from a plurality of safety components and via the interface, presence signals;
• (ii) evaluate the presence signals in order to detect which of the plurality of safety components are currently available;
• (iii) receive, from the at least one sensor and via the interface, crash-relevant information;
• (iv) by evaluating the crash-relevant information, detect a crash, a plurality of triggering control patterns being usable in response to the crash;
• (v) based on the detection of which of the plurality of safety components are currently available, select one of the plurality of triggering control patterns to respond to the detected crash;
• and
• (vi) based on the selected triggering control pattern, trigger, via the interface, one or more of the plurality of safety components that were detected to be currently available;
• and
• for each of at least one of the one or more of the plurality of safety components that is triggered, the respective safety component is triggerable to operate in different ways depending on which of the plurality of triggering control patterns that are usable to respond to the detected crash is selected, so that the safety system is configured for the respective safety component to be operated differently in response to the detected crash depending on which other ones of the plurality of safety components are detected to be currently available.