such as the racetrack step 131 is carried out after that if it is not detected with the aid of the rfid chips that the vehicle is leaving the non public area step 121 is repeated subsequently to step 220 in step 131 vehicle configurations are loaded which correspond to operation of vehicle 10 in a public area this is for example about configurations which are carried out according to legislation such as exhaust gas legislation or a road traffic ordinance in addition it is stored in a memory in the engine control unit that the vehicle is located in the public area for instance by setting a corresponding flag step 210 is carried out after that in step 210 rfid reader 18 searches for signals of rfid chips 42 and 44 with the aid of the sequence of detecting the two rfid chips 42 and 44 rfid reader 18 is not only able to determine the passing of the corresponding area by vehicle 10 but also the direction of the passing if with the aid of the sequence of the signals of rfid chips 44 and 42 it is concluded that the passing of borderline area 52 is taking place from the.