A method of generating and releasing a pause recommendation

The invention relates to a method for generating and releasing a pause recommendation to the driver of a vehicle. The following steps are provided: - determining a driving behavior of the driver corresponding measurement data and / or - determining a driving situation of the vehicle corresponding measurement data - viewing the data in at least one time domain - determining at least one predetermined representative value of the measurement data in the at least one time domain - calculating a recommendation break by means of a predetermined Vigilanzindex on the basis of at least one representative value - outputting the break recommendation to the driver of the vehicle