Abstract: A control device for preventively actuating a vehicle safety device, comprises a decision stage which issues a triggering decision the vehicle safety device if travel behavior of the vehicle which is critical for safety is detected, based on dynamic translational movement parameters. In addition, a plausibility checking stage checks the triggering decisions, evaluates it as implausible (and prevents triggering of the vehicle savety device) if an evaluation of the time profile of parameters which are sensed in the vehicle, such steering angle, activation of pedals, yaw rate or lateral acceleration, reveals that the travel behavior which is critical for safety corresponds, within predefinable limits, to a desired travel behavior. A travel behavior which is brought about in a deliberate and controlled fashion is considered to be a desired travel behavior.

Abstract: In a method for controlling the wheel suspension of a motor vehicle having an anti-roll bar for a front axle, an anti-roll bar connected to a rear axle, at least one sensor, one control unit and a circuit including an operating medium with a supply reservoir, a directional control device and an actuator for each anti-roll bar with each actuator being assigned a particular section of the circuit, different sections of the circuit are in control of different actuators so as to be actuated in opposite directions to one another as a function of vehicle operating conditions, in order to improve the traction of the vehicle on uneven underlying surfaces.