A description as required detailed embodiments of the present invention are disclosed herein however it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention that may be embodied in various and alternative forms the figures are not necessarily to scale some features may be exaggerated or minimized to show details of particular components therefore specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting but merely as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to variously employ the present invention fig1 shows purely schematically a motor vehicle 1 that is equipped with a driving assistance system 10 in the form of an autopilot the driver of the motor vehicle 1 is also shown and denoted by u201c 2 u201d an acquisition system 20 which is described in greater detail below with reference to fig2 is used to retrieve data relating to the driver condition the external environment the vehicle status and if applicable the response of other road users and the response of the driving assistance system 10 in a specific driving situation the relevant driving situation can also be classified on the basis of these parameters u201c 15 u201d is used to denote bidirectional wireless communication with a central communications platform 30 this central communications platform 30 is configured to receive and store data transmitted from the motor vehicle 1 and relating to the particular driving situation and associated e g non optimum responses of the driving assistance system 10 to this driving situation then the data stored in the central communications platform 30 is automatically analyzed for example by software 40 indicated by data storage media in which analysis an appropriate modified configuration of the driving assistance system 10 or a suitable software update is generated.