Robert Boschgmbh

Karim Badawy

Ingo Fecht

Adrian Thomys

Erik Herzhauser

Sebastian Auracher

Marcel Dorn

Sven Klostermann

The invention relates to a method for operating a vehicle with a drive device () which has at least one internal combustion engine () as a drive machine, wherein a drive torque requested by a driver of the vehicle () is implemented by operating at least the internal combustion engine () on a roadway (), comprising the following steps: a) Monitoring the roadway () for road users () travelling ahead, by means of a surroundings sensor system (), b) Monitoring a driver of the vehicle () by means of a state sensor system () with respect to his request to carry out an overtaking process in order to overtake a detected road user () travelling ahead, and if a request to carry out an overtaking process has been detected, c) Actuating the drive device () to prepare the overtaking process in such a way that before the overtaking process is carried out a torque reserve of the internal combustion engine () is built up.

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Untergruppenbach, Germany

Karim Badawy