A device for monitoring the environment of a vehicle being parked, which is used
for reliably detecting objects in the way, and which makes it possible to calculate
parking maneuvers. The device includes at least one video camera having laterally
arranged object-detection sensors, which cover areas that are not recorded by the
video camera. In this manner, the driver can be supplied in a simple manner with
warnings, even though a putative obstacle is not detectable in the video image.
