Method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle

The invention relates to a method for controlling a vehicle (100), said vehicle (100) with at least one environmental sensor (104) for detecting an environment of the vehicle (100) is provided. In this case, a situation information (106), the detected one by using the environment sensor (104) traffic situation of the vehicle (100) are represented, and a driving behavior information (108) detected a using environment sensor (104) and / or at least one vehicle external ambient sensor handling received at least one external vehicle (110) and used to determine a preference behavior information that represents at least one of the traffic situation adapted preferential behavior. Using the preferred behavior information a control signal (116) for controlling the vehicle (100) is finally output.