Method and apparatus for warning the driver of a motor vehicle

There is proposed a method and a device to warn the driver of an automobile that a traffic situation with an increased risk of collision is present. To this end, an evaluation of at least one object detector signals are fed, representing the motion quantities detected objects, as well as signals at least one own motion sensors can be fed. The calculation means calculates advance for a predetermined time period for all the detected objects, and for the own vehicle movement trajectories taking into consideration the maximum acceleration and deceleration values ​​and maximum rate of change of acceleration values ​​or delay variation values ​​and outputs, upon detection that a collision is imminent, the driver a warning that higher acceleration or deceleration and / or acceleration values ​​or delay variation values ​​are needed to avoid a collision.